by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in Louisiana for a Master’s” ranking.
Hospitality Management is the 66th most popular major in the country with 17,689 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,874 and had an average of $22,906 in loans still to pay off.
Across Louisiana, there were 219 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,927 and $22,307 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in Louisiana for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. To top this list, a school must have a successful hospitality management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in Louisiana for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana master’s degree hospitality students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in Louisiana for a Master’s. This medium-sized school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 25 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in Louisiana for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. Tulane University of Louisiana is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 2 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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