Hospitality Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #112 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 23 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,226 master's degrees in hospitality management during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Hospitality Management School for Your Master's Degree
The hospitality master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality hospitality program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on hospitality management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other hospitality management students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for hospitality management to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
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 master'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 Master's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Purdue is a very large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.
Master's recipients from the hospitality management degree program at Purdue University - Main Campus get $23,060 more than the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.
Hospitality Management master's degree recipients from George Washington University get an earnings boost of about $4,628 over the typical earnings of hospitality management graduates.
UNLV is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Las Vegas.
Hospitality Management master's degree recipients from University of Nevada - Las Vegas earn a boost of approximately $2,295 above the typical income of hospitality management majors.
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).