Hospitality Management

Hospitality management specializations

Food and Beverage Management

Whether running a bar, restaurant, or hotel, a key component to your customers’ satisfaction involves developing a carefully curated dining experience that aligns with their expectations. The Food and Beverage Management specialization gives students the proficiency needed to manage the behind-the-scenes aspects involved in dining operations, including budgeting, inventory and personnel oversight.

With courses including food service operations, front of the house operations management, and more, you’ll gain the knowledge to successfully manage your staff and build a cost-effective food and cocktail menu while giving your guests an enjoyable experience they’ll want to return to.

Hotel and Resorts Management

The Hotel and Resorts specialization lays the foundation for students aspiring to a management-level career path within the hospitality industry. Whether you seek to manage operations at a hotel or resort, run a boutique hotel or bed-and-breakfast, or oversee a hospitality chain at the corporate level, this hotel and resort management degree specialization will give you the career insight and knowledge you need to succeed.

Learn from respected and connected experts, who understand and teach the many facets of the field. From studying courses centered around revenue management, international hotel development, hotel asset management and more, graduates will be well-versed in the industry and professionally prepared to excel in their careers. 

Sustainable Tourism

With sustainability becoming an ever-important mantra within society, it is becoming increasingly critical for the tourism industry to develop best practices that allow travelers to enjoy the experiences at their destination with a clear conscience of how their presence impacts the environment. Our Sustainability Tourism specialization gives you the foundation to develop mindful decision-making that balances the needs of the globally-conscious traveler with the effect their travel has on the local environment and economy.

With this specialization focusing on tourism and hospitality management, you’ll study courses around food culture and tourism, international policies, tour management operations and more, giving you the know-how to give your guests an ethically responsible and enjoyable visit.

Online BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT Sample Courses

Coursework for your hospitality management degree online covers industry essentials in menu planning & cost control, hospitality strategic design and execution, hospitality sales and meeting management, dynamics of tourism and sustainability and more. Take a look at some options of courses you could take.

Please note that some courses may be 15 weeks long. For the most up-to-date and complete course listing information, as well as full course descriptions, visit our catalog.