2023 Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in hospitality management. To top this list, a school must have a successful hospitality management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree hospitality students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Great Lakes Region

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

#8 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate list. Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s hospitality degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at Purdue

2

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#15 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Hospitality Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate list. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s hospitality degrees to 37 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at Ohio State University - Main Campus

• Most Popular Doctor’s 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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