Hotel Management Courses in Lausanne, Switzerland

Lausanne Hotel School:
Located in Lausanne, a beautiful city which lies on Lake Geneva in Western Switzerland, The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is a leading hospitality school which is part of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland. EHL is an international, bilingual school that offers hotel management and hospitality programmes in both English and French. It provides the solid management education of a top business school while basing its programmes on its own unique educational philosophy: hospitality management as both a science and an art.

All EHL programmes taught in English or French strike a careful balance between the science and art of hospitality management. We believe that the best education for a career in hospitality is one that offers the opportunity to develop specific hospitality skills while providing a solid, broad-based business education through our different hotel management courses.

- Bachelor of Science in International Hospitality Management:
Our 4-year Bachelor hospitality degree will interest you if you are aiming for senior management positions and an international business career in hospitality.

You will receive your hospitality education through one of the world’s top hospitality schools. We embody the long tradition of excellence that characterizes a Swiss hotel management school.

The programme for the Bachelor hospitality management degree is structured so that students move from a solid grounding in hospitality service, through general management courses, to advanced courses in hospitality management strategy and increased opportunities for specialization. In their final year, students bring together and consolidate everything they have learned as part of a major Student Business Project.

Two internships form an integral part of the programme, one in operations and one offering hotel management training.,These internships provide students with the real-life experience which will give them a flying start in the workplace and set the stage for a successful career in hospitality.

* Preparatory Year: Fundamentals of hospitality and industry internship in hotel operations

* Year I: Principles of hospitality management

* Year II: Creating added value / hospitality internship at management level

* Year III: Developing strategic vision for the hospitality industry

- Master in Hospitality Administration:
Our 14-month Master in hospitality is for career switchers wishing to move to hospitality or for career climbers seeking new responsibilities or a change of direction within the hospitality industry.

The hospitality MBA uses your expertise in a new context and allows you to develop a unique mix of competencies.

Lausanne’s Master of Hospitality Administration is a full-time, demanding, MBA-style degree programme. Lausanne’s “hospitality MBA” requires a minimum of 60 hours’ work each week, including classroom presence and preparation.

Lausanne's hospitality management MBA lasts for two semesters and consists of four modules, two per semester. It is preceded by a six-week preparatory course, which you will complete before your arrival on campus. The Professional Development Stream (PDS) runs throughout the programme and is closely integrated with all the other courses.

Term I:

Module 1: The art of hospitality:
This unique module is designed to bring passion and creativity into finance and to make finance part of your inspiration. It provides an overall picture of the hospitality industry today, focusing on its main driving forces, key industry figures, and present challenges. At the same time, it offers a multi-layered, direct experience of many different hospitality enterprises, through which you will find inspiration and modelling for your own hospitality concept and creative business solutions.

Module 2: The science of management:
This module will help you to understand and analyze the financial performance of a hospitality operation: budgeting, cash flow and cost allocation. You will learn to evaluate assets and to place a quantitative value on change, or the value of an idea. You will also learn to prepare and edit financial data. This will allow you to make informed decisions and to justify a project to investors.

Term II:

Module 1: Strategy and corporate vision:
To master hospitality management, you need to understanding of the hard reality of the corporate world, and learn how can shape the tools you have acquired to create value both for yourself and the company you work for.

Module 2: Innovation and leadership:
Your final module consolidates all these different aspects in the hospitality MBA Master Business Project. This unique professional mandate, carried out in the field, will give you rigorous real-world experience in planning innovating, leading and persuading.

- Diploma in Hotel and Restaurant Management:
Our 2-year Hotel Management Diploma is for working professionals with some hospitality experience.

It corresponds to UK hospitality qualifications such as BTEC, excedel or City & Guilds, offering hotel management training at svq level 2, and hospitality supervisory training at nvq level 3.

This intensive, innovative course of study encourages entrepreneurship. It will help you either to launch your own business, or to advance your career in hotel & motel management.

Swiss hotel management schools are famous for their hands-on approach. The Hospitality Diploma builds on previous professional experience and provides the additional financial and management skills that are needed to launch a successful project. It provides an in-depth knowledge of the many, varied aspects of a hospitality enterprise and the ways in which they link together, and offers hotel management training.