Hospitality Management (Hons) University of East London

Overview

Working in the hospitality industry is all about giving people a truly memorable experience. Running a great restaurant, maintaining a beautiful hotel or putting on the best club nights makes for a rewarding and challenging career.

The Hospitality Management (Hons) course from University of East London is designed to give you a great head-start in your career; it is accredited by the Institute of Hospitality and you'll enjoy placements and guest lectures held with industry leaders across the capital.

The extended foundation course is perfect if you want a degree in hospitality management but don’t have the standard entry requirements. We prepare you for your degree during the Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. You can then go on to study the full undergraduate degree.

Your future career

The hospitality industry is global, enormous and growing. A huge variety of different organisations require hospitality management, from small bars and restaurants to global hotel chains and airlines. That’s what makes working in the industry so special; you’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple sectors and give life-changing experiences to thousands of people.

The service sector is the largest sector in the world’s economy and short of good quality managers – exactly the skills gap that this course is designed to fill. The course will give you the skills and experience you need to work in a wide range of exciting businesses, while giving you the industry contacts and guidance that will help you make the first step into a rewarding career. 

The course’s International Hospitality pathway gives you an opportunity to experience hospitality management overseas and spend an entire year on placement, equipping you for an international-facing role. Alternatively, the Hospitality Entrepreneur pathway includes an ‘Enterprise Project’ module that will give you experience in establishing and developing your own business ideas.

Whichever path you take, this accredited course will thoroughly prepare you for a challenging role in a competitive industry. We place emphasis on a vocational approach to teaching, allowing you to develop a wide range of employability skills through experience and training. We also have a superb employability team that works with students to find placements, projects, graduate schemes and full-time employment, combining careers advice with practical training in interview technique and CV writing.