2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 431 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,129 and $18,717 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great hospitality management programs and cost less that 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.

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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 Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Johnson & Wales University - Denver

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$14,148 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johnson & Wales University - Denver. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Denver, Colorado, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

JWU Denver did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johnson & Wales University - Denver are $14,148, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at JWU Denver

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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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