Hospitality Management at Purdue University Fort Wayne

If you plan to study hospitality management, take a look at what Purdue University Fort Wayne has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

PFW is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and approximately 8,093 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 7 hospitality majors received their bachelor's degree from PFW.

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.

PFW Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

PFW Hospitality Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hospitality progam at PFW 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 PFW 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 Value Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	106

Earnings of PFW Hospitality Graduates

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at PFW is $34,053. 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 PFW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the hospitality majors at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

PFW Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 7 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in hospitality from PFW in 2021, 57% were men and 43% were women. The typical hospitality bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at PFW since its program graduates 27% more men than average.

About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hospitality at PFW 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 Purdue University Fort Wayne with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Accounting
• Business Administration & Management
• General Business/Commerce

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Managers	7,290	$71,560
Food Service Managers	3,180	$52,280
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	1,210	$48,970
Lodging Managers	480	$42,130

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.