2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in New Jersey

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in New Jersey” 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 New Jersey, there were 215 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,600 and $24,083 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree hospitality students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in New Jersey

#1

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus

Teaneck, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$10,656 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Teaneck, New Jersey. It awarded 8 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at FDU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus are $10,656, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at FDU

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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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