2025 Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
7Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
295Hospitality Degrees Awarded
$35,313Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in hospitality management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #66 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 295 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for hospitality management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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 the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Best Schools for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of hospitality degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Colorado Mountain College is a great decision for students interested in a degree in hospitality management. Colorado Mountain College is a medium-sized public college located in the remote town of Glenwood Springs. This college ranks 16th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 38 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Colorado Mountain College in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Denver is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in hospitality management. Located in the city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #174 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were about 27 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent data year. Those hospitality management students who get their degree from University of Denver earn $12,366 more than the standard hospitality grad.
It's hard to beat Colorado State University - Fort Collins if you want to pursue a degree in hospitality management. Colorado State is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 50 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent year we have data available. Hospitality Management degree recipients from Colorado State University - Fort Collins receive an earnings boost of about $6,375 above the typical earnings of hospitality management graduates.
It's hard to beat Montana State University if you wish to pursue a degree in hospitality management. Located in the small city of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 12 schools for overall quality in the state of Montana.
There were approximately 7 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at MSU Bozeman in the most recent year we have data available.
MSU Denver is a large public university located in the city of Denver. This university ranks 24th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 53 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent year we have data available. Hospitality Management degree recipients from Metropolitan State University of Denver earn a boost of about $3,038 over the typical earnings of hospitality management graduates.
Located in the city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #580 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UVU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 47 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at UVU in the most recent data year. Those hospitality management students who get their degree from Utah Valley University earn $6,757 more than the standard hospitality graduate.
Southern Utah University is a large public university located in the remote town of Cedar City. This university ranks 9th out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 13 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Southern Utah University 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for hospitality management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
