Bachelor of Arts - Hotel & Hospitality Management
- 3 years
- Duration
- 38,500 CHF/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Lucerne / Switzerland
- Location
Program description
Become a part of the hospitality industry, which is one of the fastest-growing in the globe. This sector is in high demand for managers with strong organizational and soft abilities. Our curriculum will prepare you for success in the hospitality industry and beyond by fusing fundamental hospitality business ideas with real-world industry applications.
Gain practical knowledge and engaging experiences that will improve your teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills. However, our program fosters a mindset of inquiry, creativity, and global awareness in addition to skill gain.
With a focus on technological operations and global navigation, our program equips you to take on the challenges of the rapidly changing hotel sector.
Program structure
1st year - Diploma in Business & Hospitality Management
1st Semester
- Business Communication
- Study Skills
- Consumer Marketing and Research
- Organisational Citizenship
- Economics for the Global Service Industry
- German Communication A1
- Hospitality and Tourism Structure and Products
- Food and Beverage Service Operations I & II (practical lab)
- Housekeeping Operations: Theory and Practice
- Beverage Studies
- Personal and Professional Development
2nd Semester
- Internship
2nd year - Higher Diploma in Business and Hospitality Management
3rd Semester
- Business Performance Analysis
- Business Sustainability
- E-Commerce
- Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
- Event Concepts and Planning
- Front Office and Reservations: Theory and Practice
- Global Business
- Introduction to Data Analytics in Business
- Kitchen Operations (practical lab)
- Supervisory Development
- ELECTIVES:
- Advanced Food and Beverage Dining Services (practical lab)
- Current Themes in Food and Beverage
- Hospitality Yield and Revenue Management
- Hotel and Restaurant Design
- Inclusion, Diversity and Active Citizenship
- Small Business Management
- Sustainable Change Management for Tourism
- German Communications
- French Communications
- Food and Wine Pairing
4th Semester
- Internship
3rd year - BA Degree: Hotel & Hospitality Management
5th Semester
- Managing Events
- Contemporary Hospitality Services Management
- Hotel Operations Management
- Strategic Management in the Hotel & Hospitality Industry
- Hospitality Business Concepts
- Academic Study Skills (for transfer students only)
6th Semester
- Internship
Price
1st Year Diploma
- Course Fee - 27,600 CHF
- Operating costs - 2,500 CHF
- Living expenses (shared standard room and meals, 24 weeks) - 5,900 CHF
- Application fee - 500 CHF
TOTAL FEE CHF - 36,500 CHF
2nd Year Higher Diploma
- Course Fee - 28,600 CHF
- Operating costs - 2,500 CHF
- Living expenses (shared standard room and meals, 24 weeks) - 5,900 CHF
- Application fee - 500 CHF
TOTAL FEE CHF - 37,500 CHF
3rd Year Bachelor Degree
- Course Fee - 29,600 CHF
- Operating costs - 2,500 CHF
- Living expenses (shared standard room and meals, 24 weeks) - 5,900 CHF
- Application fee - 500 CHF
TOTAL FEE CHF - 38,500 CHF
Requirements for applicants
Admission Requirements
- Minimum 17 years of age
- High school Diploma or equivalent
- IELTS 5.0 level or equivalent
About the university
B.H.M.S. is one of the world's leading hospitality schools, located in the heart of Lucerne, a vibrant and beautiful city in Switzerland. Ideal Location - the campus buildings and student residences within walking distance from one another and the city center.
Business and Hotel Management School is a part of the 1928-founded Bénédict Switzerland group of schools. Bénédict School is one of Switzerland's largest private schools, with 15,000 full- and part-time pupils.
About 8,000 students each year study languages, supplemental health programs, IT, security management, commerce apprenticeships, and business management leading to Swiss Federal certifications at Bénédict Zürich. They provide craft, technical, management, a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Master of Arts degree and MBA degrees.
At B.H.M.S. Lucerne, 900 students per year prepare for hotel management roles. School offers a BA, MBA/PGD diploma, and MBA in conjunction with Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen, UK.
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