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2023 Best Value Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$24,175 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate School for You

Recreation Administration is the #163 most popular major in the country with 3,122 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

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

Best Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named Oklahoma State University - Main Campus the best value school in the Southwest Region for recreation administration students working on their graduate certificate. OSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at OSU are $24,175 per year.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Best Recreation Administration Colleges by State

Explore the best recreation administration schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 174
Arizona 1
Oklahoma 39

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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