Business & management

Hospitality Administration/Management

Grand Canyon University · Phoenix, AZ

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$17,450Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Reported median debt$25,000Reported for this university and degree
Annual credentials awarded21Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$34,958
Same subject · national$36,460
Business & management · national$42,682

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $32,315–$36,053.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Georgia State UniversityHospitality Administration/Management$35,635
University of North TexasHospitality Administration/Management$37,306
University of West FloridaHospitality Administration/Management$29,685
University of Hawaii at ManoaHospitality Administration/Management$42,433
New Mexico State University-Main CampusHospitality Administration/Management$28,236
Florida Gulf Coast UniversityHospitality Administration/Management$34,633
Eastern Michigan UniversityHospitality Administration/Management$35,213
Coastal Carolina UniversityHospitality Administration/Management$34,704
Indiana University-IndianapolisHospitality Administration/Management$35,254
The University of Texas at San AntonioHospitality Administration/Management$33,192
Washington State UniversityHospitality Administration/Management$44,170
University of Louisiana at LafayetteHospitality Administration/Management$26,739
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

This group uses wider similarity limits because the tight group is too small. If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗