2022 Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in Missouri

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 Master’s in Missouri” 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 Missouri, there were 263 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,925 and $23,499 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,588 and $39,214 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great hospitality management programs and 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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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in Missouri

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

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

#1

Southwest Baptist University

Bolivar, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$5,423 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwest Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Master’s in Missouri. Southwest Baptist University is a small school located in Bolivar, Missouri that handed out 6 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southwest Baptist University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Hospitality Management Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southwest Baptist University are $5,423, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Hospitality Management at Southwest Baptist 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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