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2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

7 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$23,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Hospitality Management is the 61st most popular major in the country with 17,830 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Great Lakes region, there were 2,434 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,100 and $20,999 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 63 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in hospitality management. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree hospitality students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 30 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the #2 spot on the list. Indianapolis, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s hospitality degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

IUPUI also took the #3 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at IUPUI are $26,013, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis

#3

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Michigan are $26,552, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kent State University at Kent. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Kent State University at Kent is located in Kent, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 masters’s hospitality degrees to qualified students.

Kent State also made our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #5. Average graduate tuition and fees at Kent State University at Kent are $21,952, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Hospitality Management at Kent State University at Kent

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Ohio University - Athens Campus is a large public school situated in Athens, Ohio. It awarded 2 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

OHIO Athens not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio University - Athens Campus are $17,712, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Ohio University - Athens Campus Hospitality Management Report

#6

Roosevelt University

Chicago, Illinois

Roosevelt University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k ranking. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

Roosevelt also took the #6 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Roosevelt are $21,605.

Full Roosevelt Hospitality Management Report

#7

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

DePaul University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k ranking, coming in at #7. DePaul is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

DePaul did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at DePaul University are $19,760, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Hospitality Management at DePaul

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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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