Continuing Education

The Cornell Hotel School offers three programs of interest to industry professionals and college-bound students. Our undergraduate B.S. degree is considered the world’s premiere program for eventual careers as senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs. 800 students are enrolled as undergraduates, about 30% of these students transferred into the Hotel School from other colleges.

The Master’s of Management in Hospitality (MMH) has an enrollment of 115. This program is accredited as an MBA and provides college graduates now working in a mid-level position the opportunity to return for an MBA in hospitality management and develop the skills and perspective to aspire to senior leadership roles in large professional corporations or to create their own companies.

The hospitality industry’s top management executive education program is offered at Cornell. Each year 1800 executives and mid-level managers attend our executive education programs designed to enhance their professional development. Several courses are also now offered online.

The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is the premier provider of culinary education for undergraduate students and foodservice and hospitality professionals. Our mission is to provide the world’s best professional culinary education.

For undergraduates, the college offers two degree programs – the Bachelor of Professional Studies (B.P.S., 38 months), and the Associate in Occupational Studies (A.O.S., 21 months). Each program offers majors in the culinary arts and the baking & pastry arts, and each emphasizes professional, progressive, hands-on learning in the college’s kitchens, bakeshops, and restaurants. CIA degree programs provide the food knowledge and skills, production experience, and management learning essential for successful entry or advancement in the foodservice and hospitality industry. For more information, please visit http://www.ciachef.edu.

For foodservice and hospitality professionals, the CIA offers an extensive menu of culinary, baking & pastry, wine, and management courses, as well as certification programs. It's increasingly important to advance your knowledge, skills and credentials, and more than 6,000 professionals come to the CIA yearly to learn with their peers. Join them and choose from a full year's schedule of innovative continuing education courses designed to keep you competitive. Pursue the CIA’s culinary and wine certifications that can give added depth to your credentials. Classes and certifications are conveniently offered at our Hudson Valley campus in Hyde Park, NY, and our Greystone campus in Napa Valley, CA. For information on all our offerings for foodservice professionals, please visit http://www.ciaprochef.com or send an e-mail to ciaprochef@culinary.edu

The University of Delaware's Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management prepares you for careers in the hospitality industry, which will continue to be one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide. We take your education seriously. Employers and graduate schools take it seriously, too. They know that if you have earned your bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware, you've been taught and challenged by some of the best educators in the hotel, restaurant and institutional management field. For personal enrichment or professional development, education is a key ingredient in today's competitive world. The University of Delaware's Online Distance Learning program responds to your special needs and combines quality instruction with state-of-the art technology, bringing the on-campus experience to you.

Florida International University, School of Hospitality Management has developed an innovative model program providing an alternative solution for the busy industry professional interested in seeking an advanced degree. Accelerate your career through the Master of Science in Hospitality Management, Executive Master’s Track Distance Program designed specifically for the hospitality executive who cannot maintain a fixed classroom schedule. Study where and when it is convenient. Classroom-based lectures with personalized instruction from the faculty members are provided on CD-ROM and supplemented with an Internet-based program facilitating a working relationship with the individual faculty member and classmates. Assignments, chat rooms, bulletins, threaded and unthreaded discussions, group learning projects, and testing are all provided on the Internet. For more information on this exciting, new degree program visit our web site at http://hospitality.fiu.edu/executive_masters or contact Dr. Joan Remington at ihter@fiu.edu.

The Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management was established to meet the demand for professional education in the increasingly complex hospitality industry.  Hotel and restaurant management requires a diversity of skills from many disciplines, including accounting, computer science, economics, law, mathematics, and psychology. For this reason, the college emphasizes broad information skills, flexibility in abstract problem solving, and in-depth studies of specific disciplines. Faculty members are selected from appropriate academic disciplines and from the professional community on the basis of their knowledge, teaching skills, and practical experience.

The Hilton University of Houston Hotel & Conference Center is an 86-room, on-campus hotel that accommodates university guests, parents and friends. The hotel is equipped with foodservice production and service areas, two full-service restaurants, three large banquet rooms, an industry archive and library, and laboratories for facilities management, management information systems, quantity food service preparation, hotel operations, and product evaluation and testing.

The Conrad N. Hilton College offers the following degree programs: Bachelor of Science in Hotel & Restaurant Management,  Master of Hospitality Management (M.H.M. Degree), and an Online Masters Program.

Continuing Education and Graduate Studies at Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI.  Johnson & Wales University offers several undergraduate continuing education programs in The Hospitality College. The programs prepare students for successful careers in a number of well-paying fields. Students also gain on-the-job experience as part of their education, as you'll find our hospitality students working at our University-owned hotels and restaurants, or at leading area employers.

Several exciting majors are offered in Continuing Education. Our undergraduate hospitality college offers AS and BS degrees such as: food & beverage management, restaurant management, hotel management, travel-tourism management, and hospitality management. Students may attend classes just one, two or three nights a week for 11-week sessions. For more information on our Continuing Education hospitality programs, check out our website http://www.jwu.edu/prov/acad_ce.htm.

The Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School offers a M.B.A. in Hospitality Administration with concentrations in Marketing and Financial Management. Future concentrations for September 2003 may include Event Leadership and Travel Tourism.

Capitalizing on its worldwide reputation in hospitality and tourism education, the M.B.A. program in Hospitality Administration prepares students who, through prior training or experience, have developed an expertise in serving the needs of travelers and the service industry. This degree program prepares hospitality managers for upward mobility in their industry towards general manager positions and further towards corporate office responsibilities. Students may complete the Hospitality Administration program in either a traditional or fast-track 12-month format. Admittance to the fast-track programs is in the September term only.

The School of Hospitality Business - Michigan State University
The mission of The School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University is to be the leader in hospitality business education through teaching, research, and service. Our curriculum is unique because it combines integrated studies requirements with business core courses and hospitality business major courses, as well as a huge selection of hospitality business elective courses. As the top-ranked business college-based school in the world, The School offers an exceptionally well-crafted curriculum taught by innovative professors. The faculty includes leading textbook authors, sought-after consultants, and respected researchers. All of their teaching and research efforts focus on addressing today and tomorrow’s hospitality business challenges. Degrees Offered: Bachelor of Arts in Hospitality Business, Master of Science in Foodservice Management, Master of Business Administration.

The School of Hospitality Business at MSU is actively involved in delivering Executive Development Programs at the Executive Development Center on campus. Program participants include executives from the National Automatic Merchandising Association, U.S. Air Force, and the Club Managers Association of America. The School just launched a Management of Lodging Systems eLearning program in partnership with the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals.

Penn State's career-focused online programs in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management (HR&IM) allow you the opportunity to create your own customized professional development plan whether you are interested in taking a single course, earning a certificate, or even completing your associate degree. You can take courses without relocating or leaving your job.

The HR&IM menu of programs offers four "step-up" doorways that allow you to focus your objectives. Each doorway helps you to organize your educational activities into a customized professional development portfolio. The doorways are aligned by sector within the hospitality industry:

• restaurant and food service

• lodging

• institutional

• career exploration (This is a special doorway for individuals, such as high school students, who want to explore the hospitality industry as a potential career.)

You can enter through any doorway, start at any step, and take as many courses or steps as you need to meet your personal or professional goals.
Step One: Professional Development Certificate
Step Two: Hospitality Management Certificate
Step Three: Associate degree in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management

Step Four: Penn State students who complete the associate degree in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management are eligible for admission to the University of Delaware’s bachelor of science degree completion program in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management. For more information, please visit the University of Delaware’s online program Web site:
 http://www.udel.edu/ce/udonline/hrim/index.shtml

Students admitted to the degree completion program transfer their credits to, and earn the bachelor’s degree from, the University of Delaware, but remain affiliate students able to use Penn State resources such as computer access and library services.