Hotel Management

Description

The Hotel Management Diploma combines hands-on hospitality courses, including rooms division, reception, and restaurant operations, with basic hotel management courses. With the hotel management diploma, students can begin with entry-level positions in hospitality businesses.

This diploma includes the foundation years of the BBA in International Hotel Management, and serves as either an exit-point or as a way for students to extend their payment schedule with the extra internship.

Detailed Course Facts

Tuition: Semester 1:CHF21450;Semester 3,4:CHF22550

• English

Course Content

The following outline is an overview of the courses offered in the Diploma in Hotel Management program. For precise details and course descriptions, refer to the Academic Catalog.

Semester 1

Your first semester of study will prepare you to successfully fulfill functions of various Front-of-the-House departments in international restaurants or hotels.

• Service Techniques – Craft-Based Learning
• Principles of Cleaning Science and Food Hygiene
• Principles of Bar and Beverage Operations
• Service Concepts
• Rooms Division Operations
• Introduction to the World of Hospitality
• General Education courses

Semester 2: Internship (4-6 months)

For this first internship, you will put into practice the basics you will have learned and get a feel for the industry. This first work experience is at operational level either in service (restaurant, bars, room service) or in Rooms Division (Front office, housekeeping).

Semester 3

This semester of study builds on the skills that you have already developed by preparing you to fulfill duties of various Back-of-the-House departments, such as:

• Culinary Arts – Craft Based Learning
• Pastry and Bakery Operations – Craft-based Learning
• Culinary Concepts
• Financial Accounting and Control
• Rooms Division Administration
• Scientific Principles of Human Nutrition and Food
• Organizational Behavior
• General education courses

Semester 4

This final semester of hotel management courses will prepare you to fulfill the managerial functions of the principal departments of a hotel or restaurant:

• Rooms Division Management
• Food and Beverage Management
• Facilities Management
• Financial Management
• Human Resources and Marketing
• Continued language development and electives

Semester 5: Internship (4-6 months)

The aim of the second internship is to allow you to develop your understanding of administration, project management, managing your time and communicating in the hospitality workplace.

This internship can be completed in any department depending on the student’s interests and specialization choice.

Students who successfully complete this program, can either start their career at this point or continue towards the Bachelor Degree.

Hands-on Hotel Management Courses

As a Swiss hospitality management school we use the traditional Swiss method of craft-based learning in our Hotel Management Diploma and Bachelor Degree in Hospitality.

Craft-based learning (CBL) is a hands-on approach to management education that teaches you the roles and responsibilities of every person who will be under your supervision later on. This gives you first-hand knowledge of the industry standards in service, hygiene, food preparation, and safety measures. Plus, it gives you experience with the soft-skills of multicultural teamwork, planning and time management, which are essential in the service industries.

These courses make up approximately 8 weeks of the total undergraduate program experience.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 5 FCE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL paper-based test score : 500 TOEFL iBT® test : 61

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Requirements

Age - Normally 18 years old and above. Applicants can be under that age provided they are 18 years old by the time they start their first internship.

Education - A High School Diploma or equivalent. Students must have completed (supported by an official Certificate / Diploma) at least six years (for the Diploma program) and at least 7 years (for the AD/ BBA program) of secondary education and provide evidence of it. Complete information on the school, including school transcript and/or certificate of public examination (including an explanatory note of the grading system) should be provided.

English Qualification - If you are not a native English speaker, or if you have not spent the last 3 years in an English-taught school, please enclose one of the following:

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Alumni Study Travel Fund

  Scholarships for students who are already attending the University of Reading.

• Amsterdam Merit Scholarships

  The University of Amsterdam aims to attract the world’s brightest students to its international classrooms. Outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship.

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Les Roches International School of Hotel Management Switzerland.

Funding

PAYMENT PLANS

A Payment Plan Agreement can be arranged to help students and their families manage their tuition payments by installments. The most common payment plans call for two or three installments, spaced over the period of one academic semester.

SCHOLARSHIPS

As a private institute, Les Roches provides a limited number of scholarships for new students. The scholarships are competitive and linked to Les Roches’ admissions strategy which aims to assist motivated young people to study at our institution. Each scholarship has specific criteria and eligibility for a scholarship is examined on a case-by-case basis for those students who have submitted a complete application.

If you would like some further information on our scholarships offered, please contact: info@lesroches.edu

Accreditation

Les Roches is accredited at university level by the US Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).

Les Roches is recognized by the education department of the Canton of Valais.

We are independently ranked among the top three hospitality management schools in the world for an international career (TNS Survey 2013).