Hospitality Management at Virginia State University

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

Virginia State is located in Petersburg, Virginia and approximately 4,020 students attend the school each year. Of the 626 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Virginia State University in 2021, 10 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.

Virginia State Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

Virginia State Hospitality Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hospitality progam at Virginia 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 Virginia 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
Most Focused Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	77
Most Focused Hospitality Management Schools	143
Best Value Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	154
	180
Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	187
Best Hospitality Management Schools	304
Best Value Hospitality Management Schools	329

How Much Do Hospitality Graduates from Virginia State Make?

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at Virginia State is $31,213. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $36,364 for all hospitality students.

Hospitality Student Demographics at Virginia State

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

Virginia State Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

The hospitality program at Virginia State awarded 10 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 10% of these degrees went to men with the other 90% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 52% 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 Virginia State University with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Virginia 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
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Business Administration & 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 VA, the home state for Virginia State University.

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 Kevin Coles under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.