Bachelor's · Ithaca, New York
Is Hospitality Administration/Management at Cornell University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $98,954
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $120,612
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $10,883
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $144k (likely $144k – $144k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $82k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.8 years (likely 2.5–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $481k (likely $386k – $574k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.45M (likely $1.22M – $1.70M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 95%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Law (Doctoral)$259,851
- Computer Science (Master's)$235,762
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$226,632
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$223,309
- Operations Research (Master's)$203,340
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$196,882
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$163,586
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$161,226
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$156,103
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$155,909
- Operations Research (Bachelor's)$151,709
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$147,241
Hospitality Administration/Management at other schools in New York
- New York University$84,375
- St. Joseph's University-New York$60,041
- New York Institute of Technology$59,490
- Culinary Institute of America$58,165
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh$53,178
- Rochester Institute of Technology$51,363
- CUNY New York City College of Technology$50,492
- SUNY Buffalo State University$48,267
- SUNY College of Technology at Delhi$48,006
- Niagara University$46,862