Omaha, NE (population: 449,283) has forty-five hotel management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Purdue University-Main Campus, the highest ranked school in this group with a hotel management program, has a total student population of 41,052. It is the 81st highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Indiana (#1 is Indiana University-Bloomington). To learn more about hotel management programs in Omaha, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hotel management professors at Purdue University such as Celal Aksu, Joan Allatta, Kirk Alter, Celal Asku, Zarjon Baha, and Matthew J. Barcaskey.
Hotel Management students from Omaha 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 Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area alone, there are 50 employed lodging managers earning an average salary of $48,680. Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in this area earn $19,300/yr and there are 790 employed.
Omaha lies in Douglas county, which is one of the 40 counties in Nebraska. Overall, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area has 452,130 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.23/hr average worker wage, and a $40,000 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.754 out of every 1000 jobs in Omaha are held by hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks, and 0.118/1000 are held by lodging managers.
Of the 45 hotel management schools with a 500-mile radius of Omaha, only 15 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Kendall College comes out as the most expensive ($33,701/yr) for hotel management students, with Gateway Technical College as the lowest, reported at only $220/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Omaha |
| Papillion | NE | - | 1 | 19.7538 | 14 | 7.5 miles |
| Council Bluffs | IA | 59,918 | 3 | 15.2545 | 57 | 7.9 miles |
| Lincoln | NE | 257,612 | 13 | 28.3679 | 496 | 46.7 miles |
| Peru | NE | - | 1 | 16.7679 | 31 | 56.2 miles |
| Crete | NE | - | 1 | 28.8976 | 48 | 66.3 miles |
| Sioux City | IA | 83,250 | 6 | 24.3659 | 219 | 88.0 miles |