General Hospitality Administration/Management at University of Kentucky

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

UK is located in Lexington, Kentucky and has a total student population of 29,986. Of the 1,484 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Kentucky in 2021, 27 of them were general hospitality administration/management majors.

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.

UK General Hospitality Administration/Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management

UK General Hospitality Administration/Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the hotel and restaurant management progam at UK 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 hotel and restaurant management major at UK 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
	38
	83
	89
	205
	243

Hotel & Restaurant Management Student Demographics at UK

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

UK General Hospitality Administration/Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 27 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Hospitality Administration/Management from UK in 2020-2021, 22% were men and 78% were women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in hotel and restaurant management at UK 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 University of Kentucky with a bachelor's in hotel and restaurant management.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	18
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UK also has a doctoral program available in hotel and restaurant management. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 KY, the home state for University of Kentucky.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Food Service Managers	2,620	$51,160
Lodging Managers	220	$52,770

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 Seicer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.