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2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
67 Degrees Awarded
$16,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Tennessee, there were 109 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,000 and $25,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 67 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality hospitality management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Tennessee (With Aid)

#1

University of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Memphis is a large school located in Memphis, Tennessee that handed out 31 bachelors’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

UofM also made our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for UofM is $13,248 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students with aid.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at University of Memphis

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s hospitality degrees to 36 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Knoxville, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UT Knoxville is $18,825 for tennessee bachelor’s degree hospitality students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full UT Knoxville Hospitality Management Report

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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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