If you plan on getting your master's degree in hospitality management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #112 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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 266 master's degrees in hospitality management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 colleges for hospitality management students working on their master's degree.
The hospitality school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Hospitality Management Master's Degree Schools in Florida.
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Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Florida International University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in hospitality management. Located in the suburb of Miami, FIU is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the hospitality program report average early career earnings of $50,909.
Every student who is interested in a master's degree in hospitality management needs to take a look at University of Central Florida. Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the hospitality program earn about $47,909 in their early career salary.
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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