Hotel Management
Winter intake start date
2025-02-01
Winter intake deadline
2024-10-25
Besides acquiring knowledge during the theoretical classes, you will already gain a lot of practical experience during your first year. You will be working in our own Teaching Hotel and accompanying student restaurant Refresh. Within these unique learning environments, you will learn how to provide and care for real guests.
During our four-year study programme, we combine theory with practice and invest a great deal in your personal development and guidance.
Our education is small-scale, whereby you will work intensively in project groups. This is put into practice when organizing an event, running the Teaching Hotel or solving a realistic business case. You will also gain experience during two company-based practical and management internships.
What will you learn?
In the first year of the bachelor study programme of Hotel Management School Maastricht, you will become acquainted with the hotel industry. You will study English and one other modern foreign language and follow courses such as marketing, management accounting and both operations and human resource management.
In the second year of our 4-year bachelor programme you will participate in an internship abroad. Furthermore, we will continue expanding your core knowledge.
The third and fourth year are all about hotel management and change management. In this phase, you will show that you can also function at a strategic level. You will choose your own courses, whereby specializing during the last year and a half of the programme. An exchange to a partner university is also an option. The last five months of the course are reserved for your management internship.
Selection procedure
The selection procedure will take place in two stages.
First phase
In the first phase we will invite you to reflect in writing on a specific statement (writing assignment). After assessment, we will then decide whether you will go on to the following stage.
Second phase
The second phase consists of a character profile test and webcam interview with you. The interview will take no longer than 20/30 minutes and will allow you to elaborate on your motivation to study our programme.
On the basis of all the outcomes, the selection committee will then take a decision.
Graduates of Hotel Management School Maastricht usually find a job quickly. The main reason for this is that the hospitality industry recognizes them as good employees with an excellent attitude and a thorough basic knowledge. This makes them suitable for a variety of positions.
Various sectors
Wherever you go in the world, you will meet alumni of the Hotel Management School Maastricht. Many of them have managerial jobs in the international hotel industry, but our students are also in demand elsewhere. They may, for instance, work in management or consultancy jobs, for healthcare institutions or service companies, in the conference and exhibition sector and in financial services. Banks and insurance companies select our students for their customer-focus. Take a look at some of the positions our graduates hold.
Self-employed
After graduation from the Hotel School, you may opt to start your own business. Your degree will fulfil the requirement of professional competence for starting or taking over a hotel, restaurant or wine merchant company.
International career
If you wish to start an international career, you can apply to many hotel chains for a manager in training programme. Every year, representatives of various hotel chains give presentations on the career opportunities in their organizations.
