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2023 Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

6 Colleges
$23,938 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,320 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Hospitality Management School for You

Hospitality Management is the #121 most popular major in the country with 1,341 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the Southwest Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for hospitality students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Hospitality Management Colleges.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Hospitality Management

Our analysis found Arizona State University - Skysong to be the best value school for hospitality management students who want to pursue a degree in the Southwest Region . Located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale, ASU - Skysong is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at ASU - Skysong are $13,092 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, ASU - Skysong is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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#2

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Texas Tech are $24,121 a year.

Texas Tech excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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$20,906 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of North Texas is a great value for hospitality management students. UNT is a fairly large public school located in the city of Denton.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UNT are $20,906 a year.

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The excellent programs at Texas A&M University - College Station helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best hospitality management schools in the Southwest Region . Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of College Station.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Texas A&M College Station are $38,855 a year.

Texas A&M College Station also made our Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #5.

Full Hospitality Management at Texas A&M University - College Station Report

#5

University of Houston

Houston, TX

The excellent programs at University of Houston helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best hospitality management schools in the Southwest Region . UH is a very large public school located in the large city of Houston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UH are $21,891 per year.

UH also claimed a spot on our Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at University of Houston

With a ranking of #6, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best value schools for hospitality management students. Located in the distant town of Stillwater, OSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at OSU are $24,764 a year.

OSU also claimed a spot on our Best Hospitality Management Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Full Hospitality Management at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Report

Best Hospitality Management Colleges by State

Explore the best hospitality management schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 108
Arizona 2
Oklahoma 6
New Mexico 0

One of 20 majors within the area of study, hospitality management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Bblackpsu.

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