Hospitality Management at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 37,024. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 53 students received a bachelor's degree in hospitality from Virginia Tech.

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.

Virginia Tech Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

Virginia Tech Hospitality Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hospitality progam at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech 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	5

How Much Do Hospitality Graduates from Virginia Tech Make?

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at Virginia Tech is $47,314. This is 30% higher than $36,364, which is the national average for all hospitality bachelor's degree recipients.

Hospitality Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 53 students earned a bachelor's degree in hospitality from Virginia Tech. About 66% of these graduates were women and the other 34% were men. The typical hospitality bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hospitality at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	38
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• General Business/Commerce
• Management Information Systems
• Real Estate
• Construction Management
• Accounting

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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Managers	17,280	$134,500
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	3,870	$60,830
Food Service Managers	3,280	$65,800
Lodging Managers	890	$65,980

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 Eric T Gunther under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.