Hospitality Management at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

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

Colorado State is located in Fort Collins, Colorado and approximately 32,428 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,528 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University - Fort Collins in 2021, 49 of them were hospitality management majors.

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.

Colorado State Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

Online Classes Are Available at Colorado State

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Colorado State does offer online courses in hospitality for the following degree levels:

Colorado State Hospitality Management Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The hospitality major at Colorado State 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
	42

Earnings of Colorado State Hospitality Graduates

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at Colorado State is $39,409. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 8% higher than the national average of $36,364 for all hospitality bachelor's degree recipients.

Hospitality Student Demographics at Colorado State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the hospitality majors at Colorado State University - Fort Collins.

Colorado State Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 31% of hospitality bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hospitality at Colorado State 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 Colorado State University - Fort Collins with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	36
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial 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 CO, the home state for Colorado State University - Fort Collins.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Managers	8,940	$138,490
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	3,030	$51,060
Business Professors	1,540	$85,570
Lodging Managers	810	$82,500

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 Spilly816 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.