2024 Best Hospitality Management Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
79Hospitality Degrees Awarded
$30,828Avg Early-Career Salary
Hospitality Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #66 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Hospitality Management Schools in Kentucky ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 79 degrees in hospitality management to qualified students.
The hospitality program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Hospitality Management rankings. For our Best Overall Hospitality Management School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The hospitality school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Hospitality Management Schools in Kentucky.
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Best Schools for Hospitality Management in Kentucky
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the hospitality degree levels they offer.
University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in hospitality management. UK is a very large public university located in the city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #230 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were about 27 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent data year. Hospitality Management degree recipients from University of Kentucky earn a boost of approximately $9,007 above the average income of hospitality management graduates.
Any student who is interested in hospitality management has to check out Sullivan University. Sullivan University is a small private for-profit university located in the large city of Louisville. This university ranks 11th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 21 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at Sullivan University in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the hospitality program state that they receive average early career income of $27,572.
Western Kentucky University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in hospitality management. Located in the city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 31 hospitality management students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the hospitality program earn about $25,076 in their early career salary.
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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