Bachelor in International Hospitality Management

Your first year at EHL will have you learning in ways you never imagined as you take a running leap into the world of hospitality,  including the privilege of practicing in a Michelin-starred restaurant under the direction of industry-awarded chefs and instructors.

Preparatory Year is delivered on Campus Lausanne in Switzerland, regardless of whether you choose to study in Singapore or Switzerland for the rest of the program. Preparatory Year features:

• 6-months of hands-on training to develop hospitality know-how
• 20 workshops covering every aspect of hotel and restaurant operations
• Expert professional teachers with industry-acclaimed backgrounds
• 6-month internship in a hospitality company of your choosing

More about the Preparatory year

In the first year of the BSC (after Preparatory Year), you will begin setting the foundation for your management career, learning the tools of the hospitality trade and the technology and terminology of the industry for key hospitality departments and functions.

Semester 1:

• Financial Accounting
• Micro-economics
• Management Information Systems Tools/Spreadsheets
• Mathematics
• Food & Beverage Cost Control
• Foundations of Hospitality Marketing
• Human Behaviour & Performance in the Workplace
• Business Communication
• Foreign Languages

Semester 2:

• Topics in financial analysis
• Macroeconomics
• Statistics
• Service Quality & Design
• Hospitality Economics
• Rooms Division Management
• Academic writing
• Computational Thinking
• Foreign Languages

In the second year, you will take a challenging academic approach to hospitality management theory guided by advanced academic practitioners, applying research to generate robust business and entrepreneurship plans. The academic semester is followed by a management internship, during which you take on a supervisory role or you can even be an intern in your own hospitality start-up company.

• Revenue Management
• Managerial Accounting
• Talent Management Systems
• Customer Information & Distribution Channel Management
• International Services Marketing
• Services Operations Management
• Legal challenges of the hospitality manager
• Corporate Sustainability

Semester 4:

This internship offers you the possibility to take on greater responsibilities and apply the administrative and management concepts you have learned in class to real world hospitality projects, teams and departments.

Professional achievement: Gain more experience in a classic hospitality establishment or try another type of business such as finance, luxury, travel, events or wellness.

Career skills: Independently, you will search and apply for this internship based on your previous internship experience and career aspirations.

Become an Intern in your own start-up

Instead of the Management in Practice you can choose to be an intern in your own start-up project, dedicating all of your time and energy to developing your business concept and getting it running with the guidance of faculty members.

In the final year, you will apply the knowledge and skills you have gained to become a business strategist and consultant. You will have the chance to choose from our industry-designed electives and tailor make your areas of expertise.

You will choose between an individual applied research project and a student consulting project ("Student Business Project") which is a consulting mandate for a real external client, where you will work in a group to solve a real-world business challenge for an industry partner.

Semester 5:

• Corporate Finance
• Hotel Asset Management
• Organizational Capital & Leadership
• Corporate Strategy
• Real Estate Finance
• Research Methodology
• Project Management
• Market Research

Semester 6 - A tailor-made specialization:

During your final semester, you can choose three elective courses depending on your interest and career aspirations, so you can tailor make your skills sets depending on where you hope to go after graduation.