Omaha, NE (population: 449,283) has forty-seven hospitality management schools within a 500-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 Omaha, 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 Omaha 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 Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area alone, there are 37,080 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $19,670. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $17,820/yr and there are 1,300 employed.
Omaha lies in Douglas county, which is one of the 40 counties in Nebraska. Overall, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area has 452,130 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.23/hr average worker wage, and a $40,000 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.880 out of every 1000 jobs in Omaha are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 82.021/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 47 hospitality management schools with a 500-mile radius of Omaha, only 16 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Kendall College comes out as the most expensive ($33,701/yr) for hospitality management students, with Gateway Technical College as the lowest, reported at only $220/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Omaha |
| Papillion | NE | - | 1 | 19.7538 | 14 | 7.5 miles |
| Council Bluffs | IA | 59,918 | 3 | 15.2545 | 57 | 7.9 miles |
| Lincoln | NE | 257,612 | 13 | 28.3679 | 496 | 46.7 miles |
| Peru | NE | - | 1 | 16.7679 | 31 | 56.2 miles |
| Crete | NE | - | 1 | 28.8976 | 48 | 66.3 miles |
| Sioux City | IA | 83,250 | 6 | 24.3659 | 219 | 88.0 miles |