by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 2,087 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,693 and $24,502 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 51 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 9 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 4 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Purdue is a large public school situated in West Lafayette, Indiana. It awarded 25 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read more about Hospitality Management at Purdue University - Main Campus
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #3 spot on the list. DePaul University is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s hospitality degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kent State University at Kent landed the #4 spot on the list. Kent State is a large school located in Kent, Ohio that handed out 6 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the #5 spot on the list. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 5 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Ohio University - Athens Campus landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 2 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Hospitality Management at Ohio University - Athens Campus
University of Wisconsin - Stout ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Menomonie, Wisconsin is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s hospitality degrees to 59 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this large public school handed out 37 diplomas to qualified masters’s hospitality students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
With a ranking of #7, Eastern Michigan University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It awarded 27 masters’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.
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