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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

5 Ranked Colleges
85 Degrees Awarded
$19,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking.

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 Southwest region, there were 1,955 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,317 and $21,565 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great hospitality management programs and cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. University of Houston is located in Houston, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 52 masters’s hospitality degrees to qualified students.

UH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Houston are $18,689, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. OSU is a large school located in Stillwater, Oklahoma that handed out 7 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

OSU also took the #4 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus are $23,963, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Texas Tech University is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 9 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech are $17,530.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the #4 spot on the list. University of North Texas is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 10 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

UNT also made our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UNT are $15,618.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s hospitality degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas A&M College Station are $22,743.

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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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