2025 Best Hospitality Management Schools in Colorado
4Colleges in Colorado
210Hospitality Degrees Awarded
$35,313Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in hospitality management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #66 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for hospitality management students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 210 degrees in hospitality management annually.
Your choice of hospitality management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for hospitality management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Hospitality Management in Colorado
The schools below may not offer all types of hospitality degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in hospitality management has to look into Colorado Mountain College. Located in the remote town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado Mountain College is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 16th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were roughly 38 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Colorado Mountain College in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in hospitality management has to look into University of Denver. DU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver. A Best Colleges rank of #174 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were about 27 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent data year. Those hospitality management students who get their degree from University of Denver earn $12,366 more than the average hospitality grad.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in hospitality management. Located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 50 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent year we have data available. Hospitality Management degree recipients from Colorado State University - Fort Collins earn a boost of about $6,375 over the typical earnings of hospitality management graduates.
Metropolitan State University of Denver is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in hospitality management. Located in the large city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 24th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were roughly 53 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent data year. Hospitality Management degree recipients from Metropolitan State University of Denver receive an earnings boost of about $3,038 over the average earnings of hospitality management majors.
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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Your choice of hospitality management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for hospitality management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
