El Paso, TX (population: 631,862) has six hotel management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Texas Tech University, the highest ranked school in this group with a hotel management program, has a total student population of 30,049. It is the 150th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Hotel Management students from El Paso 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.
El Paso lies in El Paso county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the El Paso area has 269,250 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.0% unemployment rate, $16.37/hr average worker wage, and a $34,050 average annual salary.
Of the 6 hotel management schools with a 500-mile radius of El Paso, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Texas Tech University comes out as the most expensive ($10,763/yr) for hotel management students, with Estrella Mountain Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,811/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from El Paso |
| Las Cruces | NM | 95,663 | 3 | 29.6043 | 193 | 38.7 miles |
| Alamogordo | NM | - | 2 | 15.3602 | 50 | 77.8 miles |