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2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

8 Ranked Colleges
519 Degrees Awarded
$16,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 10,363 people earned their degree in general hospitality administration/management, making the major the 80th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 941 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 519 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in general hospitality administration/management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general hospitality administration/management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general hospitality administration/management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management in the Southwest Region

#1

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Flagstaff, Arizona, and it awarded 209 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NAU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $12,915 for southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students per year to attend Northern Arizona University.

Full NAU General Hospitality Administration/Management Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 120 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

UNT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of North Texas is $15,086 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Hotel & Restaurant Management students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Hospitality Administration/Management at University of North Texas

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. OSU is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 66 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students list, OSU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend OSU is $14,648 for southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about General Hospitality Administration/Management at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

#4

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, Arizona
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Canyon University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Grand Canyon University is located in Phoenix, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 48 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to qualified students.

Grand Canyon University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Grand Canyon University is $21,020 for southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students.

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#5 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #5 spot on the list. SFASU is a fairly large school located in Nacogdoches, Texas that handed out 34 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

SFASU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Stephen F Austin State University is $13,723 for southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students.

Full SFASU General Hospitality Administration/Management Report

#7 in overall quality

New Mexico State University - Main Campus did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to qualified students.

NMSU Main Campus not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend NMSU Main Campus is $8,659 for southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus General Hospitality Administration/Management Report

#4 in overall quality

Dallas Baptist University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management students in 2019-2020.

DBU also made our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend DBU is $26,387 for southwest region bachelor’s degree hotel & restaurant management students.

Read more about General Hospitality Administration/Management at DBU

#8

Wiley College

Marshall, Texas
#8 in overall quality

Wiley College did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #8. This small school is located in Marshall, Texas, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

Wiley College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $17,666 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Hotel & Restaurant Management students per year to attend Wiley College.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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