Houston, TX (population: 2,307,883) has two hospitality management schools within its city limits. University of Houston, the highest ranked school in the city with a hospitality management program, has a total student population of 37,000. It is the 1576th highest ranked school in the USA and the 66th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about hospitality management programs in Houston, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality management professors at University of Houston such as Joann Beck, Tammy Beck, Robert Bobst, Nan Muir Bodensteiner, James Burrescia, and Robert Easley.
Hospitality Management students from Houston 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 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are 201,280 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $19,330. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $17,160/yr and there are 5,920 employed.
Houston lies in Harris county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.310 out of every 1000 jobs in Houston are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 78.509/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 2 hospitality management schools in Houston, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Houston comes out as the most expensive ($10,281/yr) for hospitality management students, with Houston Community College System as the lowest, reported at only $7,796/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Houston |
| South Houston | TX | - | 1 | 23.7623 | 5 | 11.9 miles |
| Pearland | TX | 94,215 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.0 miles |
| Pasadena | TX | 148,101 | 8 | 24.6579 | 264 | 16.3 miles |
| Missouri City | TX | 77,622 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.5 miles |
| Baytown | TX | 71,405 | 1 | 12.8813 | 98 | 25.3 miles |
| League City | TX | 78,312 | 0 | - | 0 | 25.7 miles |
| The Woodlands | TX | 101,065 | 1 | 14.626 | 77 | 27.6 miles |
| Texas City | TX | 44,907 | 1 | 8.31197 | 63 | 35.9 miles |
| Conroe | TX | 61,600 | 0 | - | 0 | 38.3 miles |
| Prairie View | TX | - | 1 | 50.8259 | 82 | 42.2 miles |
| Galveston | TX | 57,154 | 3 | 22.3727 | 45 | 47.7 miles |
| Beaumont | TX | 110,900 | 4 | 27.5152 | 152 | 78.1 miles |
| College Station | TX | 90,406 | 1 | 0.218495 | 0 | 79.5 miles |
| Bryan | TX | 73,832 | 2 | 27.1681 | 5 | 85.5 miles |