Pennsylvania contains 24 schools that offer hotel management programs. Drexel University, the highest-ranking hotel management school in PA, has a total student population of 22,493 and is the 108th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 24 hotel management schools in Pennsylvania, only 9 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, YTI Career Institute comes out as the most expensive ($41,895/yr), with Westmoreland County Community College as the lowest recorded at only $2,481/yr.
Hotel Management students from Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania alone, there are 840 employed lodging managers earning an average yearly salary of $53,610. Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in this state earn $21,740/yr and there are 6,560 employed.
Also, within the hotel management schools in Pennsylvania, the average student population is 2,077 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from hotel management, there are 10679 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,747 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $9,718, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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