Recreation Administration at Western Michigan University

If you plan to study recreation administration, take a look at what Western Michigan University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and has a total student population of 19,887. In 2021, 5 recreation admin majors received their bachelor's degree from WMU.

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.

WMU Recreation Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation Admin

WMU Recreation Administration Rankings

The recreation admin major at WMU 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.

Recreation Admin Student Demographics at WMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the recreation admin majors at Western Michigan University.

WMU Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Recreation Administration from WMU in 2020-2021, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical recreation admin bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at WMU since its program graduates 14% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in recreation admin at WMU 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 Western Michigan 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	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

WMU 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 MI, the home state for Western Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
General and Operations Managers	58,140	$122,160
Managers	6,370	$98,780
Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Supervisors	3,770	$47,880

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 TheKuLeR under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.