2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $48-$75k) in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Hospitality Management is the 61st most popular major in the country with 17,830 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,271 and had an average of $21,829 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 146 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,800 and $24,875 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 67 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in hospitality management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent hospitality management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi bachelor’s degree hospitality students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $48-$75k) in Mississippi

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$17,415 Average Net Price

$33,565 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. University, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s hospitality degrees to 50 students in 2019-2020.

Ole Miss also took the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ole Miss is $17,415 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at University of Mississippi

#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$18,285 Average Net Price

$28,598 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

Southern Miss did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. It costs about $18,285 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Southern Mississippi.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Hospitality Management Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management (Income $48-$75k)

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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