2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Hospitality Administration/Management is the 80th most popular major in the country with 10,363 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 941 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 general hospitality administration/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general hospitality administration/management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$18,689 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. UH is a large public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 52 masters’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

UH also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Houston are $18,689, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Hospitality Administration/Management at University of Houston

#2

University of North Texas

Denton, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$15,618 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Hotel & Restaurant Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. University of North Texas is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 10 masters’s hotel and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

UNT also made our “Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Texas are $15,618, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Hospitality Administration/Management at UNT

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Hospitality Administration/Management

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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