2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Kansas

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 17,689 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 66th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,874 and had an average of $22,906 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kansas, there were 85 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,504 and $23,125 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,801 and $22,074 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. That schools that top this list have a program in hospitality management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in Kansas”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in Kansas

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Kansas

1

Butler Community College
El Dorado, Kansas

#20 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Butler Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in Kansas list. Located in El Dorado, Kansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified associates’s hospitality students in 2020-2021.

Full Butler Community College Hospitality Management Report

2

Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, Kansas

#3 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johnson County Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in Kansas. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, this fairly large public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s hospitality students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at Johnson County Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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