Hospitality Management at Arkansas Tech University

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

ATU is located in Russellville, Arkansas and has a total student population of 10,829. In 2021, 18 hospitality majors received their bachelor's degree from ATU.

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.

ATU Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

ATU Hospitality Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hospitality progam at ATU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The hospitality major at ATU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Hospitality Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Hospitality Management Schools	295

Earnings of ATU Hospitality Graduates

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at ATU is $30,600. This is less than $36,364, which is the national average of all hospitality majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Hospitality Student Demographics at ATU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the hospitality majors at Arkansas Tech University.

ATU Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

The hospitality program at ATU awarded 18 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 28% of these degrees went to men with the other 72% going to women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hospitality at ATU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Arkansas Tech University with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	12
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

ATU also has a doctoral program available in hospitality. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Marketing
• Finance & Financial Management
• Accounting
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business/Managerial Economics

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 AR, the home state for Arkansas Tech University.

Occupation	Jobs in AR	Average Salary in AR
Managers	3,360	$86,410
Food Service Managers	1,330	$48,760
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	640	$45,490
Business Professors	620	$85,990

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 Valis55 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.