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Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration – (MBA)
Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne ( EHL)
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| Application Deadline: | Visa applicants: 1st March 2012 Non-visa applicants: 1st June 2012 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 38,000 - | ||
| Location: | Lausanne / Switzerland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | July |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 70 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
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Our 12-month Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration is for career switchers wishing to move to hospitality or for career climbers seeking new responsibilities or a change of direction within the hospitality industry.
The hospitality master uses your expertise in a new context and allows you to develop a unique mix of competencies.
The Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration programme is based on EHL’s philosophy of bringing together the arts and sciences of hospitality. It provides sound financial management knowledge and tools, and ensures that graduates have all the analytical and decision-making skills similiar to any graduate from a top-tier business school.
At the same time it also integrates a unique intuitive approach that is an essential part of hospitality management. So, unlike students from more conventional business schools, EHL's MBA students study the vital role played by creativity and design, art, tradition and ambience in creating and sustaining a successful hospitality venture.
Contents
EHL's Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration programme starts in July every year over a period of 12 months, consisting of two semesters and with two modules per semester. The Professional Development Stream (PDS) runs throughout the programme and is closely integrated with all the other courses.
Module 1: The art of hospitality
This unique module provides an overall picture of the hospitality industry today, focusing on its main driving forces, key industry figures, and present challenges. Experiential learning and business analysis are closely linked through a series of hands-on workshops and team building sessions.
You will benefit from direct experience in many different hospitality enterprises, through which you will find inspiration for your own hospitality concept and creative business solutions. Throughout this voyage of discovery you will be guided by an architect and designer, an entrepreneur, and a service operations specialist.
You will also work in a team to propose and develop a concept for a unique service experience which will be evaluated in terms of market attractiveness and potential financial success.
Module 2: The science of management
This module will help you understand and analyse the financial performance of a hospitality operation: budgeting, cash flow and cost allocation. You will learn how to evaluate assets and place a quantitative value on a business idea. You will also learn how to prepare and edit financial data, which will allow you to make informed decisions and justify a project to investors.
Your toolbox will include business mapping processes, decision theory and critical path analysis, models for market research, and advanced technological tools such as web analytics. With these tools, you will be able to put your own innovative or creative concept into action.
Module 1: Strategy and corporate vision
To master hospitality management, you need an understanding of the hard reality of the corporate world, and to learn how to shape the tools you have acquired to create value both for yourself and the company you work for.
You will study the strategic integration method, which involves using both quantitative skills and imagination. You will also work on methods for crafting material persuasively for different stakeholders such as lenders, owners, employees, customers, shareholders and investors.
Module 2: Innovation and leadership
By the time you reach the last part of the programme, you will be ready to consolidate your learning in a final project. You will work with our alumni and hospitality think-tank which brings together the resources of the school and the industry.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
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Register Now!Requirements
The Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration programme will interest you if you already hold a bachelor degree from any industry and have achieved 2 years’ work experience in any industry. Our MBA is for career changers who wish to move into hospitality, or for career climbers already in the field who wish to fast-track their careers. It builds on your previous experience to develop a new combination of unique, marketable skills.
An undergraduate degree
To enrol in the MBA programme, students need to have obtained an undergraduate degree from any industry.
GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test)
The GMAT score includes verbal, quantitative and analytical writing sections.
Language requirements for the Master programme
ENGLISH
Our Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration programme is delivered only in English and an excellent command of the language is expected. If you have worked or studied, and have a good business knowledge of English you may be exempt from providing an English test.
The following minimum scores are required:
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), iBT internet-based test: minimum score 100. The EHL-TOEFL Report Code, to be mentioned at the time you take the test, is 9090-02.
- IELTS (International English Language Testing System), Academic Module: minimum overall band 7.
OTHER LANGUAGES
You are not required to speak another language fluently. Nevertheless, we strongly recommend that you should have some basic conversational knowledge of the French language, which is spoken in Western Switzerland and which you will often hear on campus.
Work experience
Minimum two full years of full-time professional experience at supervisory level / with responsibilities is required to enter the Master programme. Work experience can be from any industry, not necessarily hospitality.
We emphasize a substantial amount of exchange amongst students. Our classes are small and therefore each student should bring a certain amount of professional experience into the class.
Minimum age for the Master programme
The average age of our master students is 30 years of age, minimum 25 by the start of the programme.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | 2 years |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
Accreditation
US accreditation
EHL’s Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
Europe
The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne Executive MBA in Hospitality Administration is accredited by the Swiss federal government as an Executive Master of Business Administration HES-SO degree (University of Applied Sciences)
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