Hospitality Management at Eastern Illinois University

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

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and has a total student population of 8,626. In 2021, 1 hospitality major received their bachelor's degree from EIU.

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.

EIU Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

EIU Hospitality Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hospitality progam at EIU 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 hospitality major at EIU 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
	42
	144
	165
	214
	222
	294
	484
	510

Hospitality Student Demographics at EIU

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

EIU Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of hospitality bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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

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

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

Concentrations Within Hospitality Management

If you plan to be a hospitality major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Eastern Illinois University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Hospitality Administration/Management	1

Related Majors

• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing
• Human Resource Management
• Construction Management
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing

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 IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	4,420	$52,570
Business Professors	4,030	$107,910
Lodging Managers	1,480	$49,360

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.