Hospitality Management at Rio Hondo College

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

RHCCD is located in Whittier, California and approximately 15,692 students attend the school each year.

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.

RHCCD Hospitality Management Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Hospitality

Online Classes Are Available at RHCCD

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? RHCCD offers distance education options for hospitality at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

RHCCD Hospitality Management Rankings

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.

Hospitality Student Demographics at RHCCD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the hospitality majors at Rio Hondo College.

RHCCD Hospitality Management Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of hospitality associate's degrees went to men and 80% went to women.

RHCCD does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in hospitality graduates 22% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rio Hondo College with a associate's in hospitality.

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

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 Rio Hondo College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Hospitality Administration/Management	5

Related Majors

• International Business
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• General Sales & Marketing
• Accounting
• 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 CA, the home state for Rio Hondo College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Food Service Managers	37,030	$57,920
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	16,200	$57,960
Business Professors	4,980	$137,530
Lodging Managers	4,310	$72,200

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.