An undergraduate programme in Hotel Management ranks as one of the most popular ones among students. Every year, thousands of students dream of adorning the Chef’s hat in a star rated hotel/ get into guest administration and other career paths in the hospitality Industry in India, thanks to this course.
Hospitality is an age old tradition in India. With globalization and influx of foreign capital in the country, new avenues of career choices are opening up and one of them is in Hotel Management. With a lot of international hotel and restaurant chains setting up shop in India, the situation can’t get better. The basic requirement, as in for all undergraduate programmes remains the same, the aspirant needs to have cleared HSC.
This Undergraduate programme is integrated into the curriculum of various universities across India and is called by different names, to list below.
- Bachelor in Hotel Management
- Bachelor in Hospitality Management
- B.Sc in Hotel Management
- B.A. in Hotel Management
- B.A. in Hotel and Customer Care Management
Although called by different names the above undergraduate programmes offer the aspirant the chance to get a very thorough understanding about the basics of hotel management, catering, cooking and guest management. The courses have specializations as well wherein the aspirant can take the path to don a chef’s hat or take a career path in customer/ guest management. It is an excellent course offering the aspirants the change to intern with the top hotel chains in India as a part of their curriculum, thereby exposing the aspirants to the rigors of the kitchen/ front desk as the case may be.
Some of the top institutions offering undergraduate courses in Hotel Management are listed below.
- Institute of Hotel Management ( Mumbai and various cities )
- Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal
- Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, Delhi
- Christ University, Bangalore
- Delhi Institute of Hotel Management, Delhi
- SRM Institute of Hotel Management, Chennai
- Chandigarh College of Hotel Management, Mohali
- Vel’s College of Science, Chennai
- MGR Institute of Hotel Management, Chennai
- Rizvi Collge of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Mumbai
- Institute of Advanced Management, Kolkata
- Oriental School of Hotel Management, Wayanad, Kerala
- Advanced Information and Management Studies ( AIMS), Durgapur, West Bengal
The aspirant upon successful completion of the course gets into his desired specialized field in the hospitality industry which is always on the look out for trained professionals with a flair for hospitality. Greeting the guests with a smile never paid so much before!!