Kansas City, MO (population: 454,520) has two hospitality schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. University of Central Missouri, the highest ranked school in this group with a hospitality program, has a total student population of 11,191. It is the 1871st highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state . To learn more about hospitality programs in Kansas City, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality professors at University of Central Missouri such as David Baker, Lynn Riggins, and Robert Slana.
Hospitality students from Kansas City schools who go on to become hospitality managers, caterers, event planners, wedding planners, 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 Kansas City-KS area alone, there are 84,650 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $20,510. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $17,510/yr and there are 2,580 employed.
Kansas City lies in Jackson county, which is one of the 39 counties in Missouri. Overall, the Kansas City-KS area has 988,100 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $20.79/hr average worker wage, and a $43,240 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.608 out of every 1000 jobs in Kansas City are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 85.672/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 2 hospitality schools with a 100-mile radius of Kansas City, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Johnson County Community College comes out as the most expensive ($9,481/yr) for hospitality students, with University of Central Missouri as the lowest, reported at only $8,638/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Kansas City |
| North Kansas City | MO | - | 1 | 17.668 | 0 | 1.0 miles |
| Parkville | MO | - | 1 | 24.2346 | 91 | 8.8 miles |
| Independence | MO | 110,030 | 5 | 14.6026 | 91 | 10.9 miles |
| Blue Springs | MO | 57,147 | 1 | 22.3674 | 5 | 16.6 miles |
| Lees Summit | MO | - | 1 | 10.817 | 19 | 16.7 miles |
| Lenexa | KS | 49,185 | 2 | 9.677 | 29 | 17.0 miles |
| Olathe | KS | 125,326 | 3 | 26.6113 | 75 | 21.2 miles |
| Lawrence | KS | 92,060 | 4 | 30.1334 | 36 | 39.7 miles |
| Atchison | KS | - | 2 | 13.325 | 58 | 43.3 miles |
| Saint Joseph | MO | 76,371 | 4 | 37.3685 | 160 | 46.6 miles |
| Ottawa | KS | - | 1 | 45.4994 | 36 | 52.1 miles |
| Topeka | KS | 124,629 | 5 | 27.0429 | 163 | 61.5 miles |
| Sedalia | MO | - | 2 | 20.9991 | 46 | 76.7 miles |
| Fort Scott | KS | - | 1 | 19.5238 | 38 | 89.0 miles |
| Iola | KS | - | 1 | 14.0674 | 83 | 94.6 miles |