Las Vegas, NV (population: 570,083) has two hospitality schools within its city limits. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest ranked school in the city with a hospitality program, has a total student population of 29,080. It is the 1903rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Nevada (#1 is Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences). To learn more about hospitality programs in Las Vegas, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality professors at University of Nevada such as Jeremy Aguero, Mikael B Ahlgren, Darius Allyn, Dan Assera, Surjeet Baidwan, and Christine Bergman.
Hospitality students from Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas-Paradise area alone, there are 127,230 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $24,760. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $25,630/yr and there are 4,190 employed.
Las Vegas lies in Clark county, which is one of the 8 counties in Nevada. Overall, the Las Vegas-Paradise area has 858,540 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.0% unemployment rate, $19.26/hr average worker wage, and a $40,070 average annual salary. Thus, about 4.886 out of every 1000 jobs in Las Vegas are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 148.191/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.
Of the 2 hospitality schools in Las Vegas, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College of Southern Nevada comes out as the most expensive ($8,990/yr) for hospitality students, with University of Nevada-Las Vegas as the lowest, reported at only $8,166/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Las Vegas |
| North Las Vegas | NV | 236,574 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.1 miles |
| Henderson | NV | 265,681 | 11 | 16.4924 | 250 | 17.5 miles |
| Bullhead City | AZ | 41,377 | 0 | - | 0 | 84.6 miles |