2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Arkansas, there were 98 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality hospitality management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas”.

In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas bachelor’s degree hospitality students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Arkansas

#1

Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$10,772 Average Net Price

$29,685 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. ATU is located in Russellville, Arkansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s hospitality degrees to qualified students.

ATU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. The yearly cost to attend Arkansas Tech University is $10,772 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students.

Read more about Hospitality Management at Arkansas Tech University

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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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