2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 17,830 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 61st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,271 and had an average of $21,829 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 431 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,129 and $18,717 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality hospitality management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree hospitality students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $0-$30k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Johnson & Wales University - Denver

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$14,148 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Denver landed the #1 spot on the list. Johnson & Wales University - Denver is a private not-for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at JWU Denver, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at JWU Denver are $14,148, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at Johnson & Wales University - Denver

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $0-$30k)

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).
• 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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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