2024 Best Hospitality Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in hospitality management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #49 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 34 bachelor's degrees in hospitality management to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to hospitality management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of hospitality management students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt hospitality management students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized hospitality management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for hospitality management students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Hospitality Management Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Hospitality Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Hospitality Management in Mississippi

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for hospitality management students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Mississippi Schools for a Bachelor's in Hospitality

1

University of Mississippi
University, MS

23 Annual Graduates

$32,015 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

University of Mississippi is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in hospitality management. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population.

Soon after graduation, hospitality bachelor's recipients usually make around $32,015 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in hospitality management from University of Mississippi

2

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

11 Annual Graduates

University of Southern Mississippi is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in hospitality management. Southern Miss is a fairly large public university located in the city of Hattiesburg.More information about a bachelor’s in hospitality management from University of Southern Mississippi

Best Hospitality Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	1,893
Georgia	224	105
Tennessee	220	87
North Carolina	213	240
Virginia	213	312
South Carolina	195	321
Kentucky	187	70
Alabama	184	264
Louisiana	171	71
Arkansas	167	18
West Virginia	147	54

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Hospitality Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Hospitality Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Hospitality Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Hospitality Administration/Management	23
Other Hospitality Administration/Management	11

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	1,286
Accounting	657
Marketing	528
Finance & Financial Management	378
General Business/Commerce	173
Management Information Systems	88
Construction Management	39
Insurance	38
Other Business, Management & Marketing	32
Real Estate	31

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
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