2025 Best Hospitality Management Schools in Tennessee
4Colleges in Tennessee
151Hospitality Degrees Awarded
$35,313Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in hospitality management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #66 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Tennessee to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 151 degrees in hospitality management to qualified students.
The hospitality program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Hospitality Management rankings. We derive our Best Overall Hospitality Management School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Management Schools in Tennessee.
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Best Schools for Hospitality Management in Tennessee
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the hospitality degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in hospitality management has to take a look at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Located in the midsize city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #226 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UT Knoxville is a great university overall.
There were approximately 36 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at UT Knoxville in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, hospitality degree recipients usually make around $36,439 at the beginning of their careers.
It's hard to beat University of Memphis if you wish to pursue a degree in hospitality management. UofM is a very large public university located in the large city of Memphis. A Best Colleges rank of #807 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UofM is a great university overall.
There were approximately 15 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at UofM in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the hospitality program make an average of $31,190 in the first couple years of their career.
Middle Tennessee State University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in hospitality management. Middle Tennessee State University is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Murfreesboro. This university ranks 18th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 23 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Middle Tennessee State University in the most recent data year.
Chattanooga State Community College is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in hospitality management. Chattanooga State Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the medium-sized city of Chattanooga. This college ranks 14th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were roughly 21 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Chattanooga State Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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The hospitality program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Hospitality Management rankings. We derive our Best Overall Hospitality Management School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
