Tucson, AZ (population: 551,067) has sixteen hotel management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest ranked school in this group with a hotel management 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 hotel management programs in Tucson, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hotel management professors at University of Nevada such as Stoney Alder, Richard Arend, Daniel Asera, William Corney, Darren Denenberg, and Subhas Dhodapkar.
Hotel Management students from Tucson schools who go on to become hotel managers, hotel and hospitality managers, food service managers, resort managers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 224,360 people working as hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $21,130. Also, Lodging managers make on average $53,500 per year and there are about 31,660 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Tucson area alone, there are 140 employed lodging managers earning an average salary of $54,090. Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in this area earn $21,330/yr and there are 720 employed.
Tucson lies in Pima county, which is one of the 15 counties in Arizona. Overall, the Tucson area has 362,000 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $20/hr average worker wage, and a $40,870 average annual salary. Thus, about 2 out of every 1000 jobs in Tucson are held by hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks, and 0/1000 are held by lodging managers.
Of the 16 hotel management schools with a 500-mile radius of Tucson, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Arizona Western College comes out as the most expensive ($10,426/yr) for hotel management students, with Orange Coast College as the lowest, reported at only $5,214/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Tucson |
| Sierra Vista | AZ | 44,234 | 0 | - | 0 | 55.0 miles |
| Casa Grande | AZ | 47,388 | 1 | 16.7022 | 3 | 68.8 miles |
| Maricopa | AZ | 53,723 | 0 | - | 0 | 90.0 miles |
| Gilbert | AZ | 243,090 | 0 | - | 0 | 93.1 miles |
| Chandler | AZ | 258,122 | 5 | 22.1433 | 88 | 95.1 miles |
| Mesa | AZ | 474,115 | 6 | 20.6791 | 210 | 97.8 miles |