Hospitality Management at University of Houston

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

UH is located in Houston, Texas and has a total student population of 47,090. Of the 8,890 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Houston in 2021, 230 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.

UH Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality
• Master’s Degree in Hospitality
• Doctorate Degree in Hospitality

Online Classes Are Available at UH

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UH offers distance education options for hospitality at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UH Hospitality Management Rankings

The hospitality major at UH 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.

In 2021, 58 students received their master’s degree in hospitality from UH. This makes it the #4 most popular school for hospitality master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in hospitality, making the school the #4 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of UH Hospitality Graduates

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH is $37,817. This is 4% higher than $36,364, which is the national average for all hospitality bachelor's degree recipients.

Hospitality Student Demographics at UH

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

UH Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 230 hospitality students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UH, about 35% were men and 65% were women. The typical hospitality bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at UH since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its hospitality bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	34
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	74
White	63
International Students	31
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

UH Hospitality Management Master’s Program

Of the 58 students who earned a master's degree in Hospitality Management from UH in 2020-2021, 26% were men and 74% were women.

In the hospitality master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 48% of degree recipients. That is 10% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	20
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UH also has a doctoral program available in hospitality. In 2021, 3 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• General Business/Commerce
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business/Corporate Communications
• Human Resource 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 TX, the home state for University of Houston.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Managers	20,710	$122,130
Food Service Managers	12,180	$61,610
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	7,490	$53,230
Business Professors	6,060	$110,450
Lodging Managers	3,240	$55,880

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 RJN2 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.