Bachelor's · Hyde Park, New York
Is Hospitality Administration/Management at Culinary Institute of America worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $52,024
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $62,476
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,825
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $147k (likely $147k – $178k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.3 years (likely 7.3–9.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$100k (likely −$163k – −$58k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $204k (likely $86k – $319k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 50%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Hospitality Administration/Management at other schools in New York
- Cornell University$112,289
- New York University$84,375
- St. Joseph's University-New York$60,041
- New York Institute of Technology$59,490
- 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