Hospitality Management at Grand Valley State University

If you are interested in studying hospitality management, you may want to check out the program at Grand Valley State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

GVSU is located in Allendale, Michigan and has a total student population of 23,350. Of the 1,595 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Grand Valley State University in 2021, 90 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.

GVSU Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality

GVSU Hospitality Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks hospitality programs across the country. The following shows how GVSU performed in these rankings.

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 GVSU 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
	26
	33
	46
	65
	76
	101
	141
	188

Earnings of GVSU Hospitality Graduates

The median salary of hospitality students who receive their bachelor's degree at GVSU is $35,325. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $36,364 for all hospitality students.

Hospitality Student Demographics at GVSU

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

GVSU Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 11% of hospitality bachelor's degrees went to men and 89% went to women.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hospitality at GVSU 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 Grand Valley State University with a bachelor's in hospitality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	79
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

GVSU 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

The following hospitality concentations are available at Grand Valley State University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Grand Valley State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Hotel/Motel Administration/Management	90

Related Majors

• International Business
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Human Resource Management
• General Business/Commerce

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 MI, the home state for Grand Valley State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Managers	6,370	$98,780
Food Service Managers	4,590	$61,800
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	2,720	$47,090
Business Professors	2,350	$107,140
Lodging Managers	970	$58,550

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 Demhem under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.