2025 Best Hospitality Management Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
79Hospitality Degrees Awarded
$35,313Avg Early-Career Salary
Hospitality Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #66 most popular 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 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 79 degrees in hospitality management annually.
The hospitality program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Hospitality Management rankings. For our Best Overall Hospitality Management School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The hospitality school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Hospitality Management Schools in Kentucky.
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Best Schools for Hospitality Management in Kentucky
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the hospitality degree levels they offer.
University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in hospitality management. UK is a very large public university located in the large city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were roughly 24 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the hospitality program state that they receive average early career wages of $27,809.
Every student pursuing a degree in hospitality management has to take a look at Sullivan University. Sullivan University is a small private for-profit university located in the city of Louisville. This university ranks 4th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 26 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Sullivan University in the most recent data year.
Western Kentucky University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in hospitality management. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 29 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, hospitality degree recipients usually earn around $29,492 in the first five years of their career.
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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The hospitality program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Hospitality Management rankings. For our Best Overall Hospitality Management School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
