2024 Best Hospitality Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Hospitality Management is about average in terms of popularity for doctor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #160 out of the 306 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of hospitality management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 11 doctor's degrees in hospitality management during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Hospitality Management School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of hospitality management for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality hospitality program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good 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 for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on hospitality management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of hospitality management students who choose to seek a doctor's 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for hospitality management to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized hospitality management related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for hospitality management students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Hospitality Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

 

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Hospitality Management in the Southeast Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for hospitality management students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Hospitality

1

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

3 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in hospitality management needs to look into University of Central Florida. UCF is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Orlando.More information about a doctorate in hospitality management from University of Central Florida

2

University of Mississippi
University, MS

2 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in hospitality management has to look into University of Mississippi. Ole Miss is a very large public university located in the remote town of University.More information about a doctorate in hospitality management from University of Mississippi

3

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

2 Annual Graduates

University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in hospitality management. UofSC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbia.More information about a doctorate in hospitality management from University of South Carolina - Columbia

3

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

4 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in hospitality management needs to look into The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Located in the medium-sized city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in hospitality management from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Best Hospitality Management Colleges by State

Explore the best hospitality management schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	3
Virginia	127	0
Mississippi	113	2
Tennessee	102	4
South Carolina	91	2

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Rankings in Majors Related to Hospitality

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Hospitality Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Hospitality Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Hospitality Administration/Management	11

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	766
Human Resource Management	107
General Business/Commerce	45
Other Business, Management & Marketing	36
Business/Managerial Economics	31
Accounting	6
Marketing	6
Management Information Systems	4
Entrepreneurial Studies	2
Finance & Financial Management	2

Notes and References

• 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).
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