General Hospitality Administration/Management at Iowa State University

What traits are you looking for in a hotel and restaurant management school? To help you decide if Iowa State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's hotel and restaurant management program.

Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and has a total student population of 34,992. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 34 students received a bachelor's degree in hotel and restaurant management from Iowa State.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Hospitality Administration/Management section at the bottom of this page.

Iowa State General Hospitality Administration/Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management
• Doctorate Degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management

Iowa State General Hospitality Administration/Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hotel and restaurant management progam at Iowa State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The hotel and restaurant management major at Iowa State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Hospitality Administration/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 General Hospitality Administration/Management Doctor’s Degree Schools	1
Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	12
Best General Hospitality Administration/Management Schools	13
Most Focused General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Schools	29
Most Popular General Hospitality Administration/Management Master’s Degree Schools	29
Most Popular General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	55
Most Focused General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	131
Most Focused General Hospitality Administration/Management Schools	216

In 2019, 0 student received their master’s degree in hotel and restaurant management from Iowa State. This is the #29 most popular school for hotel and restaurant management master’s degree candidates in the country.

Hotel & Restaurant Management Student Demographics at Iowa State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the hotel and restaurant management majors at Iowa State University.

Iowa State General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of hotel and restaurant management bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% went to women. The typical hotel and restaurant management bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at Iowa State since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hotel and restaurant management at Iowa State 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 Iowa State University with a bachelor's in hotel and restaurant management.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	24
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Iowa State also has a doctoral program available in hotel and restaurant management. In 2019, 9 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Meeting and Event Planning

Careers That Hotel & Restaurant Management Grads May Go Into

A degree in hotel and restaurant management can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IA, the home state for Iowa State University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Food Service Managers	2,140	$46,620
Lodging Managers	470	$47,350

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 Jamo2008 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.