Phoenix, AZ (population: 1,635,783) has four hospitality management schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Scottsdale Community College, the highest ranked school in this group with a hospitality management program, has a total student population of 10,923. It is the 5325th highest ranked school in the USA and the 82nd highest in the state of Arizona (#1 is Northern Arizona University). To learn more about hospitality management programs in Phoenix, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality management professors at Scottsdale Community College such as Jane Fletcher, Janelle Hoffman, and Gary Ward.
Hospitality Management students from Phoenix schools who go on to become hospitality managers, hospitality professionals, hospitaly managers, hotel and hospitality managers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 334,310 people working as hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $19,190. Also, Food preparation and serving related employees make on average $20,880 per year and there are about 11,218,260 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area alone, there are 154,910 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $21,680. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $19,070/yr and there are 5,590 employed.
Phoenix lies in Maricopa county, which is one of the 15 counties in Arizona. Overall, the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area has 1,763,410 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $20/hr average worker wage, and a $41,930 average annual salary. Thus, about 3 out of every 1000 jobs in Phoenix are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 88/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 4 hospitality management schools with a 100-mile radius of Phoenix, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Scottsdale Community College comes out as the most expensive ($9,012/yr) for hospitality management students, with Estrella Mountain Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,811/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Phoenix |
| Glendale | AZ | 255,662 | 10 | 18.0628 | 241 | 8.0 miles |
| Tempe | AZ | 181,658 | 9 | 21.5079 | 137 | 13.1 miles |
| Peoria | AZ | 168,424 | 5 | 16.2489 | 161 | 14.3 miles |
| Scottsdale | AZ | 241,464 | 7 | 18.4016 | 124 | 15.5 miles |
| Avondale | AZ | 89,387 | 5 | 24.8339 | 71 | 16.6 miles |
| Chandler | AZ | 258,122 | 5 | 22.1433 | 88 | 20.2 miles |
| Mesa | AZ | 474,115 | 6 | 20.6791 | 210 | 20.8 miles |
| Gilbert | AZ | 243,090 | 0 | - | 0 | 23.0 miles |
| Surprise | AZ | 104,876 | 0 | - | 0 | 24.5 miles |
| Buckeye | AZ | 61,572 | 0 | - | 0 | 30.8 miles |
| Maricopa | AZ | 53,723 | 0 | - | 0 | 33.2 miles |
| Casa Grande | AZ | 47,388 | 1 | 16.7022 | 3 | 48.8 miles |
| Prescott | AZ | 44,035 | 4 | 31.39 | 279 | 75.2 miles |
| Prescott Valley | AZ | 41,046 | 1 | 8.12951 | 6 | 75.4 miles |