Tucson, AZ (population: 551,067) has eighteen hospitality management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest ranked school in this group with a hospitality management program, has a total student population of 29,080. It is the 1903rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Nevada (#1 is Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences). To learn more about hospitality management programs in Tucson, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality management professors at University of Nevada such as Jeremy Aguero, Mikael B Ahlgren, Stoney Alder, Darius Allyn, Richard Arend, and Daniel Asera.
Hospitality Management students from Tucson 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 Tucson area alone, there are 33,790 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $20,680. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $18,070/yr and there are 1,270 employed.
Tucson lies in Pima county, which is one of the 15 counties in Arizona. Overall, the Tucson area has 362,000 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $20/hr average worker wage, and a $40,870 average annual salary. Thus, about 4 out of every 1000 jobs in Tucson are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 93/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 18 hospitality management schools with a 500-mile radius of Tucson, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Arizona Western College comes out as the most expensive ($10,426/yr) for hospitality management students, with Orange Coast College as the lowest, reported at only $5,214/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Tucson |
| Sierra Vista | AZ | 44,234 | 0 | - | 0 | 55.0 miles |
| Casa Grande | AZ | 47,388 | 1 | 16.7022 | 3 | 68.8 miles |
| Maricopa | AZ | 53,723 | 0 | - | 0 | 90.0 miles |
| Gilbert | AZ | 243,090 | 0 | - | 0 | 93.1 miles |
| Chandler | AZ | 258,122 | 5 | 22.1433 | 88 | 95.1 miles |
| Mesa | AZ | 474,115 | 6 | 20.6791 | 210 | 97.8 miles |