Florida State Hospitality Management (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Hospitality Administration/Management
- Public university
- Tallahassee, FL
- About 225 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Florida State hospitality management graduates earn about what hospitality management graduates earn nationally, $37,330 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $18,864 in federal loans, less than at 88% of hospitality management programs in the country. It is one of the higher-paying hospitality management degrees in Florida.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Florida and national columns are the medians across all hospitality management bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Florida State graduates earn more than the national figure and about $2,370 more than the Florida median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Florida hospitality management program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Florida medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 42% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned about the same in their first year as other graduates, but borrowed more: a median of $20,000 against $17,986.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $200 a month, or 6.4% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual. Separately, 25 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $11,611.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
71% of graduates (154 of 216) were working in Florida one year after graduating. Prices in the Tallahassee area are about 6% below the national average, so a $37,330 salary here buys what about $39,747 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to hospitality management, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Food Service Managers
$72,790Median pay in Florida. 18,500 people work in this job in Florida. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 38,800 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Facilities Managers
$98,780Median pay in Florida. 8,620 people work in this job in Florida. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 14,200 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
$60,270Median pay in Florida. 10,480 people work in this job in Florida. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 16,800 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Tour and Travel Guides
$41,600Median pay in Florida. 2,720 people work in this job in Florida. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 11,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
About Florida State
Hospitality Management ranks 30th of 60 bachelor's programs at Florida State by first-year earnings. The top three are Computer Engineering ($78,941), Industrial Engineering ($76,426), and Electrical Engineering ($72,425).
Common questions
The median graduate earns $37,330 one year after graduating and $53,037 five years after. The median across hospitality management bachelor's programs in Florida is $34,656.
The median federal loan balance is $18,864, which ranks 2nd lowest of 9 hospitality management bachelor's programs in Florida. That works out to about $200 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 51% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 67%, and the share of borrowers in default two years into repayment is 10% or less.
Most do. 71% (154 of 216) were working in Florida one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Florida comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the hospitality management program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024