Hospitality Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #112 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 76 master's degrees in hospitality management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 colleges for hospitality management students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Hospitality Management Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Hospitality Management Programs
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Johnson & Wales University - Online is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, JWU Online is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
After graduating, hospitality master's recipients usually make about $43,055 in the first five years of their career.
Johnson & Wales University - Providence is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the midsize city of Providence, JWU Providence is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Soon after graduating, hospitality master's recipients usually make about $43,055 in their early careers.
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).
