Hospitality Management at San Diego State University

What traits are you looking for in a hospitality school? To help you decide if San Diego State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's hospitality program.

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and has a total student population of 36,334. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 students received their master's degree in hospitality.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Hospitality Management section at the bottom of this page.

SDSU Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Hospitality

SDSU Hospitality Management Rankings

Hospitality Student Demographics at SDSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the hospitality majors at San Diego State University.

SDSU Hospitality Management Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of hospitality master's degrees went to men and 87% went to women.

Of the students who received a hospitality master's degree from SDSU, 57% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the hospitality master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 30% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a master's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management
• Other Business, Management & Marketing
• Accounting
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Hospitality Grads May Go Into

A degree in hospitality can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for San Diego State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Food Service Managers	37,030	$57,920
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	16,200	$57,960
Business Professors	4,980	$137,530
Lodging Managers	4,310	$72,200

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Wikipedia User:Geographer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.