Recreation Administration at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

If you are interested in studying recreation administration, you may want to check out the program at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SWOSU is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma and approximately 4,898 students attend the school each year. Of the 834 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 2021, 17 of them were recreation administration majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Recreation Administration section at the bottom of this page.

SWOSU Recreation Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation Admin

SWOSU Recreation Administration Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks recreation admin programs across the country. The following shows how SWOSU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The recreation admin major at SWOSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Recreation Administration. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	3
Best Value Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
Most Focused Recreation Administration Schools	43
Most Popular Recreation Administration Schools	48

Earnings of SWOSU Recreation Admin Graduates

The median salary of recreation admin students who receive their bachelor's degree at SWOSU is $36,232. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 13% higher than the national average of $32,052 for all recreation admin bachelor's degree recipients.

Recreation Admin Student Demographics at SWOSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the recreation admin majors at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

SWOSU Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 recreation admin majors earned their bachelor's degree from SWOSU. Of these graduates, 76% were men and 24% were women.

About 76% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in recreation admin at SWOSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's in recreation admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

SWOSU also has a doctoral program available in recreation admin. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Health & Physical Education

Careers That Recreation Admin Grads May Go Into

A degree in recreation admin can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for OK, the home state for Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
General and Operations Managers	25,770	$104,860
Managers	1,780	$102,710
Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Supervisors	1,330	$44,790

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jeffrey Beall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.