2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Hospitality Management is the 66th most popular major in the country with 17,689 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,831 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,320 and $20,222 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Houston is a large public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 3 doctorate’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UH Hospitality Management Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Hospitality Management at Texas A&M College Station
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 72 doctorate’s hospitality degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Hospitality Management at Texas 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
- *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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