2024 Best Hotel/Motel Administration/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
41Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in hotel/motel administration/management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #201 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of hotel/motel administration/management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 associate degrees in hotel/motel administration/management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Hotel/Motel Administration/Management School for Your Associate Degree
The hotel/motel administration/management associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to hotel/motel administration/management students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of hotel/motel administration/management students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized hotel/motel administration/management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for hotel/motel administration/management students working on their associate 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 Hotel/Motel Administration/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Hotel/Motel Administration/Management in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in hotel/motel administration/management.
Top Southwest Region Schools for an Associate in Hotel/Motel Administration/Management
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).