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Most Popular Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

2023 Most Popular Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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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 Most Popular Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Recreation Administration program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for recreation admin majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, MI

Our 2023 rankings named Central Michigan University the most popular school in the Great Lakes Region for recreation administration students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the town of Mount Pleasant, Central Michigan is a public college with a fairly large student population.

About 50% of the students majoring in recreation admin at the school are women while 50% are male.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Illinois University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Recreation Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Macomb.

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Best Recreation Administration Colleges by State

Explore the best recreation administration colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 48
Ohio 15
Illinois 186
Indiana 88
Wisconsin 53

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 averages are for the top 2 schools 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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