MA in Hospitality Management
Course Overview
The MA in Hospitality Management at LSCAHM is a UK Level 7 postgraduate award running one year full-time or two years part-time on-campus, online and by distance learning. The programme is aligned with UK senior-practice benchmarks recognised by the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and the Hospitality Professionals Association (HOSPA) and reads rooms, F&B, revenue and people as one commercial system.
By graduation you are running full-hotel commercial planning, coaching heads-of-department and cluster teams, and defending a supervised dissertation, capstone or sponsor project in front of a panel of practising directors.
Key Features
- Curriculum aligned with Institute of Hospitality senior-management competencies and HOSPA benchmarks.
- Weekly seminars with practising general managers, cluster leads and hospitality consultants.
- Sponsor projects with named London hotel groups and multi-site operators.
- Dissertation supervised by a practising hospitality director or consultant.
- Three parallel study modes for progressors, working practitioners and portfolio-route applicants.
What You Will Learn
- Read a hospitality business through a full commercial lens.
- Design departmental budgets across rooms, F&B and events.
- Lead cross-functional teams through service standards and change.
- Model refurbishment, repositioning and expansion cases.
- Manage risk, compliance and licensing at Master's depth.
- Interpret guest, staff and market data as management signals.
- Report to owners, investors and cluster executives.
- Design and defend a research-informed capstone or dissertation.
Who This Course Is For
- Duty managers, department heads and operations managers stepping into senior roles.
- Consultants specialising into UK hospitality practice.
- Independent hoteliers formalising senior commercial competence.
- International practitioners consolidating UK senior-management credentials.
Career Pathways
- Hotel Manager
- General Manager (Hotel/Restaurant)
- Executive Assistant Manager
- Hospitality Operations Manager
- Rooms Division Manager
- Food & Beverage Manager
- Hospitality Business Consultant
The LSCAHM careers service runs at least one industry-careers day each academic year connecting Master's students with hotel groups, restaurant businesses and consultancy practices recruiting into senior management pipelines.
Entry Requirements
- A UK Bachelor's degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent international qualification in hospitality, management or a related discipline.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Applicants without a Bachelor's degree but with 5+ years of senior professional experience in hospitality are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small tutor-visible cohorts. LSCAHM reads culinary arts, hospitality management, tourism, events and food business as interlocking disciplines, which sharpens senior hospitality reading.
Central London places luxury hotel groups, the Institute of Hospitality and the wider hospitality sector within a short tube ride of every classroom.
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