2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Arizona

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 an Associate in Arizona” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 17,830 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 61st most popular in the United States. 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 Arizona, there were 534 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,440 and $20,992 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 45 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,749 and $17,785 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Arizona” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality hospitality management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Arizona

The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona associate degree hospitality students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Arizona

#1

Pima Community College

Tucson, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$3,583 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pima Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Arizona. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this fairly large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified associates’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

Pima County Community College District also took the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Schools in Arizona” ranking. It costs about $3,583 for arizona associate degree hospitality students per year to attend Pima County Community College District.

Full Pima County Community College District Hospitality Management Report

#2

Arizona Western College

Yuma, Arizona

#3 in overall quality

$10,165 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona Western College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Arizona list. AWC is a medium-sized school located in Yuma, Arizona that handed out 2 associates’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

AWC also made our “Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Schools in Arizona” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $10,165 for Arizona Associate Degree Hospitality students per year to attend AWC.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at AWC

#3

University of Phoenix - Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$12,944 Average Net Price

$25,194 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for an Associate in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 3 associates’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Schools in Arizona” list. The estimated yearly cost for UOPX - Arizona is $12,944 for arizona associate degree hospitality students.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at University of Phoenix - Arizona

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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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