2025 Best Hospitality Management Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

a master's degree in hospitality management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #112 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Hospitality Management Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 172 master's degrees in hospitality management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Hospitality Management School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of hospitality management for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to hospitality management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of hospitality management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt hospitality management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized hospitality management related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for hospitality management students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Hospitality Management Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Hospitality Management Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Hospitality Management in the Far Western US Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in hospitality management.

Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Hospitality

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

52 Annual Graduates

University of Southern California is a good choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from University of Southern California

2

University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

51 Annual Graduates

$52,755 Median Starting Salary

University of Nevada - Las Vegas is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the city of Las Vegas, UNLV is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the hospitality program report average early career earnings of $52,755.

More information about a master’s in hospitality management from University of Nevada - Las Vegas

3

San Diego State University
San Diego, CA

45 Annual Graduates

San Diego State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the city of San Diego, SDSU is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from San Diego State University

Best Hospitality Management Colleges by State

Explore the best hospitality management schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	253	69
Nevada	105	38
Hawaii	85	6

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Hospitality Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Hospitality Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Hospitality Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Hospitality Administration/Management	116
Meeting and Event Planning	25
Restaurant/Food Services Management	16
Other Hospitality Administration/Management	10
Tourism and Travel Services Management	5

Majors Similar to Hospitality

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	13,277
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	6,081
Accounting	1,073
Human Resource Management	852
Other Business, Management & Marketing	339
Taxation	275
Finance & Financial Management	265
Entrepreneurial Studies	252
Management Information Systems	167
General Business/Commerce	152

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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).
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