Albuquerque, NM (population: 535,923) has seventeen hospitality management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Texas Tech University, the highest ranked school in this group with a hospitality management program, has a total student population of 30,049. It is the 150th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Hospitality Management students from Albuquerque 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 Albuquerque area alone, there are 33,620 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $18,960. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $17,880/yr and there are 1,160 employed.
Albuquerque lies in Bernalillo county, which is one of the 23 counties in New Mexico. Overall, the Albuquerque area has 381,870 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $19.31/hr average worker wage, and a $40,170 average annual salary. Thus, about 3.036 out of every 1000 jobs in Albuquerque are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 88.045/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 17 hospitality management schools with a 500-mile radius of Albuquerque, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Utah Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,719/yr) for hospitality management students, with Colby Community College as the lowest, reported at only $6,131/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Albuquerque |
| Albuequerque | NM | - | 1 | 4.18669 | 13 | 3.0 miles |
| Rio Rancho | NM | 85,837 | 1 | 10.6625 | 12 | 10.6 miles |
| Santa Fe | NM | 74,019 | 6 | 20.0822 | 127 | 54.1 miles |
| Grants | NM | - | 1 | 9.85236 | 40 | 69.7 miles |