If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in hospitality management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #49 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Hospitality Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maine ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 21 bachelor's degrees in hospitality management during the 2021-2022 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to hospitality management students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of hospitality management students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt hospitality management students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized hospitality management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for hospitality management students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Best Hospitality Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Hospitality Management in Maine
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for hospitality management students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Husson University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in hospitality management. Located in the small city of Bangor, Husson is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Hospitality Management bachelor's degree recipients from Husson University earn a boost of around $5,444 above the average earnings of hospitality management graduates.
University of Southern Maine is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in hospitality management. University of Southern Maine is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Portland.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the hospitality program state that they receive average early career income of $29,924.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
