Post-Grad Higher Diploma In International Hotel Operations & Management

SHML Post Grad program is characterized by content entirely dedicated to hospitality business operations and management as practiced within international hotels. Expected outcomes are set by corporate-level hoteliers who directly participate in: knowledge transfer, leading case studies, assessing results and securing for all participants the right/most suitable internship opportunity in Switzerland or in the world.

Participants could be of different profiles:

1. Graduates who wish to diverge from their initial professional choice in favor of hospitality;
2. Hospitality practitioners who decide to broaden own professional knowledge, in view of optimizing career progression opportunities;
3. Individual entrepreneurs who decide to acquire essential hospitality management knowledge and skills in view of their future venture as hotel owners.

Progression and Accreditation: Depending on sequence and results of traditional education to-date, the 2-year Post Grad program can be accepted within managed progression of SHML courses towards the Master Degree at one of our partner universities.

Recognition: Genesis Hotels and Resorts, GHM, Orient Express, Swiss Belhotel International, SPM.

Course Programs:

Semesters 1 and 3 at College and two paid internships (if in Switzerland) or with a partner International Hotel company (see SHML website).

Academic Semester 1:

Focus on one core revenue-generating department: Food & Beverage Operations. Program content begins with discovering critical aspects leading to the establishment of F&B concepts—supported by one or several production centers. By concept it is implied a detailed study and application of key management functions that begin with planning—lay-out of the entire F&B operations, including engineering aspects, interior design, equipment, systems—and progress with organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, controlling and evaluating the entire operational cycle. The program involves practical exercises, although limited to F&B Front-of-the-House activities. Practical Food Production and languages are optional.

First internship: This first internship —3 to 6 months, and remunerated if in Switzerland— is planned to suit individual needs: restaurants, bars, fast food, banqueting operations.

Academic Semester 2:

This program introduces the second core-generating department: Rooms Division, and all management subjects in support of core operations, namely: F&B Management, Accounting and Finance, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Engineering/Maintenance/Energy, and a Capstone exercise (simulation combining Engineering, Sales and Marketing, F&B and RD Operations, Human Resources and Finance).

Second internship (optional):

This second paid internship (4 to 6 months) is planned to suit individual needs, again within F&B or RD operations or within other departments, depending on participants’ profiles and opportunities offered.

Fees:

2-year module: CHF 45,000.-  including accommodation in twin sharing double room, full board, health insurance and books & materials but excluding travel and visa costs.
Potential monthly earnings during internships: CHF 2’150.- gross per month (in Switzerland only).
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Certificates and Diploma:

Upon successfully completing the first year module, participants are awarded:
-Post Grad Diploma in International Hotel Operations

Upon successfully completing the 2-year module, participants are awarded:
-Post Grad Higher Diploma in International Hotel Operations & Management

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