<p>I want to major in this field and is looking for the colleges that have the best programs.</p>
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<p>Cornell is probably your best bet. I know they have great hotel management majors.</p>
<p>but how much will you pay for cornell?</p>
<p>some of those schools on that list have pretty low tuition.</p>
<p>Cornell is way too expensive for me! It’s like $50,000! My college tuition budget is $30k and under.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t do it. a degree like this is not versatile and is worth next to nothing outside of running a hotel. you are better off doing accounting or finance.</p>
<p>Major in a core business area like accounting or finance and then go into the industry of choice. Going right into hospital management would be problematic should you decide to change industries later on.</p>
<p>Geez, accounting and finance is not for everyone. Thats OKAY. Not everyone has to do accounting or finance. </p>
<p>If someone’s passion is hospitality managment/tourism, then no doubt a Business Hospitality would be of most use AND would bring him/her our more prepared for the type of work he/she, not YOU, is interested in. </p>
<p>Just make sure you know the likely starting salary and/or job placement before you chose an school whose tuition you’ll never be able to afford when you get out.</p>
<p>Accounting and financing? -_- Yeah, I’d rather be a teacher. lol xD</p>
<p>With the little to no context he or she gave us, the path YOU stated might be problematic. From a general question comes a general answer: accounting and finance gives one the skill set to go into any industry. He or she can “go into this field” with those majors whereas he or she cannot go into other fields with a hospitality management degree. One would be a complete fool to hire, everything else being equal, a Northern Arizona (as mentioned in the “Top 10” hospitality management programs) hospitality management major over a decent accounting/finance program student. Furthermore, since the only school that has non-regional prestige in this field (Cornell) is “too expensive,” therefore I would say spending four years to come out with a narrow hospitality management degree is a waste of time and money. </p>
<p>This all pertains to corporate positions in hospitality management (working in Bethesda, for Hilton Hotels, etc.). At single hotels, every one on the payroll except for the manager and associates does not need a college education as these people are housekeepers, cooks, desk attendants, etc. These managers and associates are 95% of the time not external hires but rather motivated workers that showed managerial promise. So, if you want to go this route, I would advise joining a hotel as a desk assistant, secretary, etc and spending those same four years making money and being promoted within as opposed to leveraging your four years on the hope that you will be in the 5% of hires who were simply at the right place at the right time.</p>
<p>This is a classic case of what I like to call “sports management syndrome.”</p>
<p>“With the little to no context he or she gave us, the path YOU stated might be problematic. From a general question comes a general answer…”</p>
<p>His/her question was that she wanted to major in Hospitality or Toursim and was inquiring about the best programs. He/She was NOT asking “what major should I go into?” </p>
<p>You answered a question that she did not ask at all. </p>
<p>Besides, it is ridiculous to think that majoring in finance or accounting would be the best move for someone who is both not interested and is not going to do acctg/finance work after they graduate. Makes so much more sense to take other classes that will be more beneficial to their chosen career path.</p>
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<p>Reminded me of this thread, still makes me laugh. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/1001160-flagler-colleges-sports-management-programme.html?highlight=sports+management[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/1001160-flagler-colleges-sports-management-programme.html?highlight=sports+management</a></p>
<p>Whatdidyou, I think you are missing my point. I am arguing that going for a hospitality management degree outside of Cornell does not make much temporal or financial sense. Thus, looking at the “best hospitality management programs” (which that list didn’t even rank but instead just highlighted some schools) doesn’t make much of a difference. Want an objective source? Just look at the hire pages for Hilton and Marriott, which I indeed looked at myself. Corporate positions are either: financial analyst positions requiring an accounting, math, or finance degree or marketing/PR positions requiring a marketing degree or, more preferably, experience in marketing. Once again, learning and developing an understanding for a specific industry does NOT come from the classroom but rather by having working experience in the industry. Conversely, learning the technical skills to be competent in the corporate positions above can only really be done in accounting/finance/marketing electives and NOT on the job.</p>
<p>And, once again, this only applies to corporate positions. Hotel managers, I would be willing to bet, are largely hires from within. Ponder this for yourself; would you rather hire someone with a “flashy” hospitality management degree or someone who “knows the ropes” of this one specific hotel franchise and shows managerial promise? Until a hospitality management professional comes to this thread, this practical argument is the best we can come up with. Non-hotel managers don’t necessitate a college education.</p>
<p>From my argument, I have and will conclude again that getting a hotel management degree for either a corporate position or a hotel manager gig makes little sense. Either gain a technical business/quantitative degree (finance, accounting, math, or even marketing) and aspire to work in Bethesda or McLean or begin working as an administrative assistant in a hotel and “climb the latter” during those four years instead of wasting your time and money.</p>
<p>Feel free to critique or argue my points. Ultimately, I hope this helps lalily.</p>
<p>And yes, jdb, sports management is the same way. As I have said, any major that has a adjective in front of management 95% of the time is a fluffy major with no substance–international management, hospitality management, sports management. HR management is the only one I can think of that has even a glimpse of value.</p>
<p>^ you’re still answering the Q you want to answer and not the one he/she asked. But thats OK, could still be valuable. </p>
<p>I have not idea about the value of a hospitality degree. Clearly, if you want to work in the Finance, Marketing, IS dept of a company (whether the industry is Hotels, Theme Parks, Retail…etc) then you should major in that specific discipline. </p>
<p>However, generally people who major in Hospitality Management, are more interested in managing the hotels, or running there own business one day, rather than working in an accounting department, correct? </p>
<p>At my undergrad, the hospitality majors got the most internships of all the business majors (although, they were probably at lower pay). I would imagine that, lets say, a Hotel would like to hire a Hospitality major w/ related experience (thru summer jobs, internships, pt jobs) in hotel management track positions over acctg/finance majors…I’d also imagine that getting a degree would help you get those management track positions over a welcome assistant/maid. But I guess I could be wrong, and it all depends on the companies and their needs at the time. </p>
<p>Like you say, it could be more valuable to get a regualar hotel job and try to work your way up into a mgmt track position. I have no idea how difficult that would be…</p>
<p>Here are two questions that I would advise the OP to answer before entering a hospitality management program…</p>
<p>1.) Do hospitality firms actively recruit from your program?
2.) Do the hotels you might be interested in hire from within or externally? The problem with trying to analyze individual hotels is that each probably has a unique hiring structure.</p>
<p>UNLV and Cornell have good hospitality programs.</p>