Hospitality Management

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 33.1 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 47.6 k / Year(s) Deadline: Feb 1, 2025
StudyQA ranking:2894 Duration:4 years

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This major helps provide preparation for management positions in hotels, restaurants, institutions, and other hospitality organizations. The program is designed to give the student a broad general education and a strong management and problem-solving orientation balanced with the requisite technical skills, all of them essential for career progression to upper-management positions in the hospitality professions. The program also helps prepare students for graduate study.

HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT OPTION: This option helps prepare students for management positions in any segment of the hospitality industry, including hotels, restaurants, institutional or non-commercial operations, clubs, resorts, and casinos. The management focus helps provide students with the analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills necessary to effectively function as hospitality professionals.

HOSPITALITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPTION: (offered only at Penn State Berks ) This option helps prepare students for careers as owners or managers of small independently-owned hospitality operations or as entrepreneurs within large hospitality corporations or management companies in hospitality segments such as a restaurants, hotels, and non-commercial operations. The entrepreneurship focus helps provide students with creative problem solving, opportunity recognition, and leadership skills necessary to effectively manage small or individual unit's hospitality operations.

For the B.S. degree in Hospitality Management, a minimum of 120.5 credits is required. The B.S. degree program consists of two options: (1) Hospitality Management and Hospitality Entrepreneurship.

Per Senate Policy 83.80.5, the college dean or campus chancellor and program faculty may require up to 24 credits of course work in the major to be taken at the location or in the college or program where the degree is earned. SHM requires students to complete 24 credits for the major through courses taken at University Park. Courses taken at other Penn State campuses may not be counted toward this 24 credit minimum. For more information, check the Recommended Academic Plan for this major.

Course Nbr Course Title Typically Offered

199

Foreign Studies

Fall Only

201

Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry

Fall Only

201

Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry

Fall & Spring

202

Colloquium in Hospitality Management

Fall Only

202

Colloquium in Hospitality Management

Fall & Spring

(203)

Hospitality Professional Development Seminar

** available as of 13.08.2017

 

(203)

Hospitality Professional Development Seminar

** available as of 13.08.2017

Fall Only

203

Hospitality Pre-Professional Development Seminar

 

203

Hospitality Pre-Professional Development Seminar

Fall Only

228

Hospitality Food Safety

All Semesters

228

Hospitality Food Safety

Fall Only

250

Principles of Quantity Food Production

Fall Only

270

Hospitality Administration Seminar

Spring Only

271

Introduction to Hospitality Technology

Fall Only

271

Introduction to Hospitality Technology

Fall & Spring

290

Hospitality managerial Communication

 

290

Hospitality managerial Communication

All Semesters

290W

Hospitality managerial Communication

All Semesters

297

Special Topics

All Semesters

304

Institutional Food Service Management

Spring Only

305

Restaurant Management

 

306

Hospitality in Senior Living

Fall & Spring

311

Wine Appreciation

Spring Only

311

Wine Appreciation

Spring & Summer

318

Club Management and Operations

Spring Only

319

Hospitality Facilities Management

Fall Only

329

Introduction to Food Production and Service

All Semesters

329

Introduction to Food Production and Service

Spring Only

330

Food Production and Service Management

 

330

Food Production and Service Management

All Semesters

(335)

Hospitality Financial Accounting

** available as of 13.08.2017

Fall Only

(335)

Hospitality Financial Accounting

** available as of 13.08.2017

Fall & Spring

335

Hospitality Financial Accounting

Fall Only

335

Hospitality Financial Accounting

Fall & Spring

336

Hospitality Managerial Accounting

All Semesters

336

Hospitality Managerial Accounting

Spring Only

350

Hospitality Decision Making and Information Systems

Fall Only

350

Hospitality Decision Making and Information Systems

Fall & Spring

355

Legal Aspects of the Hospitality Industry

Fall & Spring

365

Organizational Behavior in the Hospitality Industry

Fall Only

365

Organizational Behavior in the Hospitality Industry

Fall & Spring

380

Hotel Management

*** view multiple offerings

Fall & Spring

380

Hotel Management

Spring Only

384

Introduction to Meeting and Event Planning

Fall & Spring

386

Introduction to the Gaming and Casino Industry

Fall & Spring

387

Casino Controls

 

388

Gaming Operations Management

Spring Only

411

Beverage Management and Wine Selection

Fall Only

413

New Product Development for Commercial Foodservice

Fall Only

430

Advanced Food Production and Service Management

All Semesters

432

Contemporary Issues in Restaurant Management

 

435

Financial Management in Hospitality Operations

*** view multiple offerings

All Semesters

435

Financial Management in Hospitality Operations

Fall & Spring

442

Hospitality Marketing

All Semesters

442

Hospitality Marketing

Fall Only

442

Hospitality Marketing

Fall & Spring

443

Sales Planning and Advertising for Hospitality Operations

 

466

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry

 

466

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry

Fall & Spring

466

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry

Spring Only

471

New Trends and System Selection in Hospitality Information Technology

Fall Only

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  • TOEFL: A minimum TOEFL score of 80 on the Internet-based TOEFL or 550 on the paper exam (code #2660)
  • IELTS: A minimum IELTS score of 6.5 on the academic test
  • Penn State requires first-year international students to submit an official score from the SAT or ACT examination.Please note: The writing component of standardized tests (SAT or ACT) is not required. The writing component will not be used as part of our evaluation. If your test scores include the writing component, by all means, have those scores sent to Penn State. Additionally, we do not require SAT Subject Tests.
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