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Best Value Recreation Administration Schools in California

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2023 Best Value Recreation Administration Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$1,352 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,293 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Recreation Administration School for You

Recreation Administration is the #249 most popular major in California with 50 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Recreation Administration Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Recreation Administration Colleges.

Best Recreation Administration School

$1,352 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Mt. San Antonio College to be the best value school for recreation administration students who want to pursue a degree in California. Mt. SAC is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Walnut.

Mt. SAC undergraduate students pay an average of $1,352 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at Mt. San Antonio College

Best Value Recreation Administration Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Recreation Administration Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 43
Nevada 5

One of 4 majors within the area of study, recreation administration has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 67,146
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 3,106
Outdoor Education 265
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Glen Santy.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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