Hospitality Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Every hospitality management school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the hospitality program at University of Massachusetts Amherst stacks up to those at other schools.

UMass Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 31,642 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 110 students received a bachelor's degree in hospitality from UMass Amherst.

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.

UMass Amherst Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Hospitality (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

Online Classes Are Available at UMass Amherst

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? UMass Amherst offers distance education options for hospitality at the following degree levels:

UMass Amherst Hospitality Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hospitality progam at UMass Amherst 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 UMass Amherst 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 Basic Certificate Schools	5
Most Popular Online Hospitality Management Basic Certificate Schools	15

How Much Do Hospitality Graduates from UMass Amherst Make?

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMass Amherst is $45,299. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 25% higher than the national average of $36,364 for all hospitality bachelor's degree recipients.

Hospitality Student Demographics at UMass Amherst

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

UMass Amherst Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

The hospitality program at UMass Amherst awarded 110 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 26% of these degrees went to men with the other 74% going to women.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hospitality at UMass Amherst 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 University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	82
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UMass Amherst 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
• Human Resource Management
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Marketing
• 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 MA, the home state for University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Food Service Managers	6,270	$68,770
Business Professors	4,050	$126,040
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	3,090	$56,570

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 Lion Hirth under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.