2026 Best Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management degree programs prepare students for a range of careers in the field. While the number of schools offering the program varies, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2026 ranking, College Factual looked at 16 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for hotel, motel, and restaurant management students pursuing a degree.
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Best Schools for Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management in the Great Lakes Region
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the hotel, motel, and restaurant management degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management
Leading the list is College Of Dupage, our #1 school for hotel, motel, and restaurant management. College Of Dupage is a very large public school located in the suburb of Glen Ellyn. College Of Dupage awarded about 10 hotel, motel, and restaurant management degrees in the most recent data year. Graduates of the hotel, motel, and restaurant management program make about $43,025 in their early career. Students borrow a median of $12,492 to complete this degree.
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Notes and References
This ranking is produced by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 16 schools evaluated.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
