2023 Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Hospitality for a Master’s” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 17,689 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 66th most popular in the United States. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 595 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,334 and $24,840 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Hospitality for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality hospitality management programs as well as strong veteran support.

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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Hospitality for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Hospitality for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree vets studying hospitality.

Top 2 Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania

1

Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

830 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Hospitality for a Master’s. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large public school handed out 25 diplomas to qualified masters’s hospitality students in 2020-2021.

Temple also made our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 830 of the 37,236 students enrolled at Temple University were GI Bill® students, of which 510 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $13,479. To help with additional expenses, 9 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Temple University offers credit for military training for eligible students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Temple University Veteran Student Life Report

2

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

155 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Hospitality for a Master’s list. This medium-sized school is located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 20 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.

East Stroudsburg University also made our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 155 of the 5,835 students enrolled at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania were GI Bill® students, of which 60 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,861. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Full East Stroudsburg University Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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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