2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Plains States region, there were 374 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management in the Plains States Region

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,948 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s hotel and restaurant management degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa State also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State University are $25,948.

Full Iowa State University General Hospitality Administration/Management Report

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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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