MA in Hotel Management
Course Overview
The MA in Hotel Management at LSCAHM is a UK Level 7 postgraduate programme running one year full-time or two years part-time on-campus, online or by distance learning. The programme reads hotel management as an integrated senior discipline covering rooms, F&B, revenue, brand and owner-operator relationships, informed by working general managers, cluster revenue leads and hospitality investors in central London. Alignment references Institute of Hospitality, HOSPA and IH&RA senior-practice standards.
By graduation, students have delivered a research-informed dissertation on a live hotel-management question — commercial strategy, guest experience or brand positioning — supervised by practising hoteliers and industry executives.
Key Features
- Curriculum aligned with Institute of Hospitality, HOSPA and IH&RA guidance
- Named dissertation supervisors drawn from working hotel general managers
- Modules on rooms, F&B, revenue, brand and owner-operator strategy
- Live briefs with UK hotel groups and independent London hotels
- Access to Cornell Hotel Society alumni operating in the UK
- Small research seminars with tutor-visible cohort model
What You Will Learn
- Lead a hotel across rooms, F&B, revenue and public areas at senior level
- Design commercial strategy for competing in defined market segments
- Model hotel P&L, capex and refurbishment cases at investor standard
- Interpret brand, franchise and management-contract frameworks
- Deliver revenue-management strategies across ADR, RevPAR and mix
- Manage owner, brand and management-contract stakeholder relationships
- Set sustainability, wellbeing and ESG standards for a hotel
- Deliver a defensible research dissertation on hotel-management outcomes
Who This Course Is For
- Hotel department heads and duty managers progressing to General Manager
- Career changers with corporate backgrounds moving into hotel leadership
- Family-business successors modernising a hotel operation
- International graduates targeting UK hotel-management careers
Career Pathways
- Hotel Manager progressing to General Manager (Hotel/Restaurant)
- Rooms Division Manager
- Food & Beverage Manager
- Revenue Manager progressing to Cluster Revenue Manager
- Resort Manager
- Guest Relations Manager (senior)
- Hospitality Marketing Manager
The LSCAHM careers service connects MA students with UK hotel groups, independent operators and hospitality investors through annual industry-careers days.
Entry Requirements
- A UK Bachelor's degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent international qualification in a hospitality, business or related discipline.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers, or equivalent.
- Applicants without a Bachelor's degree but with five or more years of senior professional experience in hotel management are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement.
Why Study at LSCAHM
LSCAHM is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts across culinary arts, hospitality management, tourism, events and food business. Central London places luxury hotel groups, hotel-investment offices and the Institute of Hospitality within a short tube ride of every classroom.
Three parallel study modes and an annual careers day let working hoteliers complete the MA without leaving current roles.
Apply for MA in Hotel Management
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