Indianapolis, IN (population: 803,930) has three hospitality management schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Purdue University-Main Campus, the highest ranked school in this group with a hospitality management program, has a total student population of 41,052. It is the 81st highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Indiana (#1 is Indiana University-Bloomington). To learn more about hospitality management programs in Indianapolis, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality management professors at Purdue University such as Howard Adler, Celal Aksu, Joan Allatta, Kirk Alter, Celal Asku, and Zarjon Baha.
Hospitality Management students from Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis-Carmel area alone, there are 76,890 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $19,830. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $17,720/yr and there are 3,040 employed.
Indianapolis lies in Marion county, which is one of the 39 counties in Indiana. Overall, the Indianapolis-Carmel area has 870,660 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.5% unemployment rate, $20.15/hr average worker wage, and a $41,900 average annual salary. Thus, about 3.496 out of every 1000 jobs in Indianapolis are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 88.312/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 3 hospitality management schools with a 100-mile radius of Indianapolis, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Beckfield College comes out as the most expensive ($19,717/yr) for hospitality management students, with Purdue University-Main Campus as the lowest, reported at only $10,620/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Indianapolis |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 11.3 miles |
| Carmel | IN | 71,355 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.3 miles |
| Fishers | IN | 75,408 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.6 miles |
| Noblesville | IN | 43,991 | 1 | 25.8098 | 4 | 20.4 miles |
| Anderson | IN | 57,207 | 4 | 25.3197 | 163 | 32.5 miles |
| Greencastle | IN | - | 1 | 73.3275 | 64 | 39.2 miles |
| Crawfordsville | IN | - | 1 | 65.7607 | 29 | 42.5 miles |
| Kokomo | IN | 45,373 | 3 | 27.6981 | 91 | 48.4 miles |
| Muncie | IN | 64,234 | 3 | 31.2358 | 217 | 49.7 miles |
| West Lafayette | IN | - | 1 | 78.6553 | 122 | 60.0 miles |
| Terre Haute | IN | 60,269 | 5 | 28.5376 | 204 | 68.9 miles |
| Oxford | OH | - | 1 | 41.8383 | 150 | 77.2 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 82.1 miles |
| North Manchester | IN | - | 1 | 55.0629 | 70 | 86.8 miles |
| Middletown | OH | 51,674 | 7 | 25.6111 | 228 | 96.6 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 97.7 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 98.1 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 98.5 miles |