2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Tourism and Travel Services Management is the 443rd most popular major in the country with 1,303 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 121 tourism and travel services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 96 tourism and travel services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in tourism and travel services management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality tourism and travel services management programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the tourism and travel services management program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The tourism and travel services management 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s”.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Tourism and Travel Services Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

3 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 University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school handed out 84 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s tourism and travel services management students in 2020-2021.

UH Manoa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Tourism and Travel Services Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list.According to our most recent data, University of Hawaii at Manoa supports 18,025 students, and 3 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 4 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,153. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

711 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$5,593 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Tourism and Travel Services Management for a Bachelor’s list. Central Washington University is a public institution located in Ellensburg, Washington. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

CWU also made our “Best Tourism and Travel Services Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #2.Of the 11,174 students enrolled at CWU, 711 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 327 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,593. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. CWU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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• Best Tourism and Travel Services Management Bachelor’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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