Hotel Management
Winter intake start date
2027-02-01
Winter intake deadline
2026-10-25
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.
- Transcript of Records – If you have not yet completed Secondary School, you must upload a transcript showing your current grades. You can find the transcript template here.
- Secondary School Leaving Certificate – If you have already completed Secondary School, you do not need to upload a separate transcript. Simply upload your Secondary School Leaving Certificate to the application.
Note: this programme uses a selection procedure. Admission to this programme includes a two-phase selection process. First, applicants submit an online portfolio. Based on the portfolio assessment, selected candidates are invited to Selection Friday, where they complete additional selection activities.
Important! View the full requirements on the university’s official website. Requirements may vary depending on your nationality and the country where you completed your previous education.
You may not need to take IELTS or TOEFL. University usually allow you to prove your English proficiency in one of the following ways:
- TOEFL iBT*
- IELTS Academic
- A Cambridge English qualification
- A national English examination listed on your secondary school leaving certificate
- An English subject and grade on your secondary school leaving certificate that meet the university’s requirements
- Secondary education completed in English in a country or school qualification accepted by the university
- An International Baccalaureate (IB) or European Baccalaureate (EB) diploma
- Other
Important: Accepted methods and minimum results depend on study programme, your secondary school qualification and the country where you completed your education. Check the official requirements for your chosen study programme.
*Use the Kastu promo code LTU1000102 when registering for TOEFL iBT and receive a 5% discount.
- Requirement for a second modern foreign language (French, German, or Spanish*) in addition to English. You must either:
˃ Have taken the chosen language in your final years of secondary school and obtained the final exam at level A2 or above, according to the Common European Framework (CEFR), Or
˃ Provide an official language certificate with a passing grade at A2 level or higher.
Selection procedure:
1. You’ll complete a portfolio at your own pace, including:
- Your academic record for your latest completed school year: your secondary education diploma and the most recent and complete transcripts. If you have not yet received your diploma, submit your most recent and complete transcripts instead.
- Certificates or evidence of relevant experience and skills.
- A self-reflection assignment.
- A short video in which you tell who you are and what motivates you to work in the hospitality sector and study at HMSM.
2. Phase 2 will take place on the HMSM campus in Maastricht. For candidates living abroad we offer the possibility to take part in the online selection procedure. Phase 2 includes the following components:
- A test to assess your numeracy skills.
- A group assignment in which you work together on an innovative business challenge.
- An individual interview where you present the outcome of the business challenge, and reflect on it with the assessors. We also assess whether there's a good match between your motivation, potential, the study programme, and HMSM.
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.
