2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 391 people earned their degree in hotel, motel, and restaurant management, making the major the 877th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 75 hotel, motel, and restaurant management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in hotel, motel, and restaurant management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great hotel, motel, and restaurant 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 hotel, motel, and restaurant management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management

#1

SUNY Delhi

Delhi, New York

#4 in overall quality

$14,867 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Delhi. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s. SUNY Delhi is a small public school situated in Delhi, New York. It awarded 16 bachelors’s hotel, motel, and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

SUNY Delhi did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend SUNY Delhi is $14,867 for Bachelor’s Degree Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management students.

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#2

Ohio University - Athens Campus

Athens, Ohio

#3 in overall quality

$22,906 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s hotel, motel, and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OHIO Athens, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ohio University - Athens Campus is $22,906 for bachelor’s degree hotel, motel, and restaurant management students.

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#3

Niagara University

Niagara University, New York

#1 in overall quality

$20,019 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Niagara University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Niagara University, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s hotel, motel, and restaurant management students in 2019-2020.

Niagara also took the #1 spot in our “Best Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Niagara University is $20,019 for Bachelor’s Degree Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management students.

Full Niagara Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Report

#4

New York Institute of Technology

Old Westbury, New York

#2 in overall quality

$21,427 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York Institute of Technology. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools for a Bachelor’s. NYIT is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Old Westbury, New York. It awarded 15 bachelors’s hotel, motel, and restaurant management degrees in 2019-2020.

NYIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for NYIT is $21,427 for Bachelor’s Degree Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management at New York Institute of Technology

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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