2023 Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Master’s” ranking.

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 the Southwest region, there were 986 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general hospitality administration/management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general hospitality administration/management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general hospitality administration/management program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

1,382 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 University of Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Master’s. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to 58 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree vets studying hotel & restaurant management list, UH has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,382 of the 47,090 students enrolled at UH were GI Bill® students, of which 730 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,264. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at UH]](/colleges/university-of-houston/student-life/veterans/)

2

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

2,038 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Hotel & Restaurant Management for a Master’s list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified masters’s hotel and restaurant management students in 2020-2021.

UNT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 2,038 of the 40,953 students enrolled at UNT were GI Bill® students, of which 1,138 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,999. 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.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UNT Veteran Student Life Report

• Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’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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