2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 10,606 people earned their degree in general hospitality administration/management, making the major the 92nd most popular in the United States.

Across Georgia, there were 338 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general hospitality administration/management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general hospitality administration/management programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the general hospitality administration/management program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Georgia

1

Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

1,873 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s. Georgia State University is a public institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 45 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Georgia State also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking.Among the 36,360 students enrolled at Georgia State University, 1,873 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 662 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,934. In addition to receiving other benefits, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

9 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Georgia supports 39,147 students, and 9 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 3 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,402. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Georgia Veteran Student Life Report

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College of Coastal Georgia
Brunswick, Georgia

187 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Coastal Georgia landed the #3 spot on the list. CCGA is located in Brunswick, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to qualified students.

CCGA also made our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list, coming in at #3.According to our most recent data, CCGA supports 3,457 students, and 187 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 113 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,586. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

[Read full report on veteran student life at CCGA]](/colleges/college-of-coastal-georgia/student-life/veterans/)

• Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
• Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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