BA in Hospitality Management
Course Overview
The BA in Hospitality Management is a three-year UK Level 6 honours degree developing hospitality general managers for hotels, restaurant groups and venue operators. Sitting inside the LSCAHM Hospitality Management department, the programme is aligned with Institute of Hospitality general-management themes, UKHospitality operating standards and HOSPA commercial benchmarks, and includes a compulsory year-two placement in a hotel, restaurant or hospitality operator.
By graduation you can hold P&L accountability across a small hotel or multi-outlet operation, lead a mixed brigade, direct commercial performance, and complete a final-year dissertation or capstone commissioned by a UK operator.
Key Features
- Curriculum aligned with Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and HOSPA benchmarks.
- Compulsory year-two placement inside a hotel, restaurant or venue operator.
- General-management, commercial and strategy modules across three years.
- Live service and event shifts across LSCAHM teaching operations.
- Small tutor-visible cohorts across on-campus, online and distance modes.
- Final-year dissertation or sponsor capstone supervised by senior hospitality practitioners.
What You Will Learn
- Lead a hotel or multi-outlet hospitality operation across rooms, F&B and events.
- Hold weekly and monthly P&L accountability.
- Coordinate commercial, operations and guest-experience functions.
- Apply UK employment, health and safety, and licensing law to hospitality operations.
- Direct capital expenditure, refurbishment and asset-management decisions.
- Represent an operation to owners, franchisors and asset managers.
- Design and lead cultural and change programmes across a hospitality team.
- Present a strategic hospitality proposition to a senior executive panel.
Who This Course Is For
- School leavers targeting general management careers in hospitality.
- Advanced Diploma and Higher Diploma holders progressing to a full UK honours degree.
- International applicants seeking a UK-recognised hospitality BA from London.
- Working hospitality supervisors formalising their credentials.
- Applicants targeting careers across hotels, restaurants, venues and mixed-use operators.
Career Pathways
- Hotel Manager
- General Manager (Hotel/Restaurant)
- Rooms Division Manager
- Food & Beverage Manager
- Resort Manager
- Cluster General Manager (Junior)
- Guest Experience Director
- Multi-unit Operations Manager
The LSCAHM careers service supports every BA cohort with placement matching, alumni introductions and an annual industry-careers day featuring hotel groups, restaurant collections and venue operators.
Entry Requirements
- A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two academic references and a personal statement outlining your interest in hospitality management.
- International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSCAHM admissions.
Why Study at LSCAHM
LSCAHM sits inside Harold International College of London and teaches hospitality management alongside culinary, tourism, events and food business. That interlock is precisely what a great general manager needs: fluency in every department their operation contains.
Central London places hotel groups, the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and HOSPA within a short tube ride of every classroom.
Apply for BA in Hospitality Management
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