2021 Best Hospitality Management Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Rocky Mountains Region
6Colleges
195Bachelor's Degrees
$31,581Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Hospitality Management Schools for Non-Traditional Students
For this year's Best Hospitality Management Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a bachelor's in hospitality. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent hospitality management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to non-traditional students.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as affordability, and overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
As a non-traditional student, you have a lot to consider when it comes to choosing an education. That's why we've developed rankings specifically for you. Check out more major-related rankings here..
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2021 Best Hospitality Management Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Rocky Mountains Region
Check out the hospitality programs at these schools if you want to see which ones are the best for non-traditional students.
Best Hospitality Management Schools for Non-Traditional Students
University of Denver tops the 2021 list of our schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that are best for non-traditional hospitality management students. DU is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Denver. As a testament to the quality of education offered at DU, the school also landed the #1 rank in our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
About 0.7% of DU students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. 3,512 students at DU are exclusively online. There are roughly 5,249 part time students in attendance at DU.
Johnson & Wales University - Denver landed the #2 spot in our 2021 best hospitality management schools for non-traditional students. JWU Denver is a school located in the of Denver. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, JWU Denver has also earned the #3 rank in our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
About 0.0% of JWU Denver students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. All students are part time.
Our rankings recognize Colorado State University - Fort Collins as the #3 school in this year's rankings. Located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public school with a very large student population. Colorado State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region list.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.8%. There are approximately 12,180 students at Colorado State that take at least one class online. About 9,631 of the students at Colorado State are attending part time.
The #4 spot in this year's ranking belongs to Metropolitan State University of Denver. MSU Denver is a fairly large public school located in the city of Denver. MSU Denver not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #6 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region list.
About 2.8% of MSU Denver students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 8,148 students at MSU Denver that take at least one class online. About 7,163 of the students at MSU Denver are attending part time.
Our rankings recognize Utah Valley University as the #5 school in this year's rankings. UVU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Orem. UVU also made our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region list, coming in at #5.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.1%. There are approximately 15,690 students at UVU that take at least one class online. About 22,387 of the students at UVU are attending part time.
Our rankings recognize Southern Utah University as the #6 school in this year's rankings. Southern Utah University is a fairly large public school located in the remote town of Cedar City. Southern Utah University not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #4 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region list.
The student loan default rate at Southern Utah University is lower than is typical, just 2.0% of students default in three years. Approximately 4,613 students take at least one class online at Southern Utah University. About 4,998 of the students at Southern Utah University are attending part time.
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 the rest 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).
