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

a master's degree in hospitality management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #112 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual reviewed 11 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of hospitality management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 346 master's degrees in hospitality management during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

Your choice of hospitality management for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to hospitality management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of hospitality management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt hospitality management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized hospitality management related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Hospitality Management Schools

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 Hospitality Management Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Hospitality Management in the Southeast Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in hospitality management.

10 Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Hospitality

1

Florida International University
Miami, FL

157 Annual Graduates

$50,909 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in hospitality management has to look into Florida International University. Located in the large suburb of Miami, FIU is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Hospitality Management master's degree recipients from Florida International University get an earnings boost of approximately $3,827 over the typical earnings of hospitality management majors.

More information about a master’s in hospitality management from Florida International University

2

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

88 Annual Graduates

$47,909 Median Starting Salary

University of Central Florida is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the hospitality program state that they receive average early career income of $47,909.

More information about a master’s in hospitality management from University of Central Florida

3

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

2 Annual Graduates

Tulane University of Louisiana is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the large city of New Orleans, Tulane is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from Tulane University of Louisiana

4

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

11 Annual Graduates

The University of Alabama is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. UA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Tuscaloosa.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from The University of Alabama

5

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

16 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Columbia, UofSC is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from University of South Carolina - Columbia

6

Auburn University
Auburn, AL

1 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from Auburn University

7

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

5 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from East Carolina University

8

University of Mississippi
University, MS

2 Annual Graduates

Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from University of Mississippi

9

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

18 Annual Graduates

$51,386 Median Starting Salary

Georgia State is a very large public university located in the city of Atlanta.

Those hospitality management students who get their master's degree from Georgia State University receive $4,304 more than the standard hospitality graduate.

More information about a master’s in hospitality management from Georgia State University

10

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, FL

7 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Tampa, USF Tampa is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in hospitality management from University of South Florida - Main Campus

Best Hospitality Management Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	266
Georgia	190	18
North Carolina	178	5
Alabama	151	12
Louisiana	147	27
South Carolina	146	16
Mississippi	145	2

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Hospitality Management Related Rankings by Major

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

Hospitality Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Hospitality Administration/Management	341
Other Hospitality Administration/Management	5

Majors Similar to Hospitality

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	28,300
Accounting	4,166
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	4,156
General Business/Commerce	3,230
Human Resource Management	1,293
Marketing	739
Finance & Financial Management	688
International Business	531
Management Information Systems	416
Entrepreneurial Studies	258

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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