2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Tourism and Travel Services Management in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tourism and Travel Services Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 1,133 people earned their degree in tourism and travel services management, making the major the 443rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 0 tourism and travel services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 tourism and travel services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tourism and Travel Services Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in tourism and travel services management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their tourism and travel services management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tourism and Travel Services Management Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tourism and Travel Services Management Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Tourism and Travel Services Management in the Plains States Region

1

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tourism and Travel Services Management Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Black Hills State University landed the #1 spot on the list. BHSU is located in Spearfish, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s tourism and travel services management degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full BHSU Tourism and Travel Services Management Report

2

Butler Community College
El Dorado, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Butler Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tourism and Travel Services Management Major in the Plains States Region. El Dorado, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s tourism and travel services management degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Butler CC Tourism and Travel Services Management Report

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).
• 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.
• 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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