2021 Best Hospitality Management Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region
8Colleges
840Bachelor's Degrees
$24,817Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Hospitality Management Schools for Non-Traditional Students
This year's Best Hospitality Management Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region ranking looked at 8 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.
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 the Best Hospitality Schools for Non-Traditional Students.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
2021 Best Hospitality Management Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest 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 Houston has taken the #1 spot in this year's hospitality management ranking for non-traditional students. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public college with a fairly large student population. As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH, the school also landed the #1 rank in our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region ranking.
About 0.5% of UH students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 26,121 students take at least one class online at UH. 13,663 students are part time.
Our rankings recognize Texas Tech University as the #2 school in this year's rankings. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock. Texas Tech not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #2 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region list.
About 1.4% of Texas Tech students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 22,394 students at Texas Tech that take at least one class online. About 7,077 of the students at Texas Tech are attending part time.
University of North Texas comes in at #3 in this year's ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a very large student population. UNT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region list.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.8%. There are approximately 20,194 students at UNT that take at least one class online. 12,105 of UNT students are attending part time.
Northern Arizona University earned the #4 spot in our 2021 rankings. Located in the small city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public college with a fairly large student population. NAU also made our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #6.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.7%. There are approximately 9,603 students at NAU that take at least one class online. 6,368 of NAU students are attending part time.
Our rankings recognize Oklahoma State University - Main Campus as the #5 school in this year's rankings. OSU is a very large public school located in the town of Stillwater. As a testament to the quality of education offered at OSU, the school also landed the #4 rank in our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region ranking.
About 1.2% of OSU students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 10,181 students take at least one class online at OSU. 5,006 students are part time.
The University of Texas at San Antonio comes in at #6 in this year's ranking. UTSA is a fairly large public school located in the city of San Antonio. As a testament to the quality of education offered at UTSA, the school also landed the #7 rank in our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region ranking.
About 1.4% of UTSA students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 20,824 students take at least one class online at UTSA. 10,436 students are part time.
Stephen F Austin State University comes in at #7 in this year's ranking. SFASU is a large public school located in the remote town of Nacogdoches. SFASU not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #8 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region list.
The student loan default rate at SFASU is lower than is typical, just 2.1% of students default in three years. There are approximately 6,979 students at SFASU that take at least one class online. There are roughly 3,007 part time students in attendance at SFASU.
Our rankings recognize New Mexico State University - Main Campus as the #8 school in this year's rankings. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public college with a large student population. NMSU Main Campus not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #9 on our Best Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region list.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 3.9%. There are approximately 7,734 students at NMSU Main Campus that take at least one class online. 3,478 of NMSU Main Campus students are attending part time.
Non-Traditional Student Rankings in Majors Related to Hospitality
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Cost is for the top 8 schools only.
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 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).
