2023 Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Louisiana

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in hospitality management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent hospitality management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Louisiana

1

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

604 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Lafayette, Louisiana, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UL Lafayette, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” ranking.Among the 16,450 students enrolled at UL Lafayette, 604 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 224 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,336. In addition to receiving other benefits, 4 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Louisiana at Lafayette]](/colleges/university-of-louisiana-lafayette/student-life/veterans/)

2

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

304 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$4,782 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Orleans. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s hospitality degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.

UNO also made our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 304 of the 8,375 students enrolled at University of New Orleans were GI Bill® students, of which 116 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,782. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Full University of New Orleans Veteran Student Life Report

3

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, Louisiana

73 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

$5,637 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Louisiana for Hospitality for a Bachelor’s. NSU is a fairly large public school situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana. It awarded 30 bachelors’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.

NSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list.Among the 11,447 students enrolled at NSU, 73 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 49 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,637. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. NSU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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