MSc in Hotel Administration & Management
Course Overview
The MSc in Hotel Administration & Management is a research-informed LSILHHM executive Master's running across a 12 to 18-month duration band. Aligned with Institute of Hospitality and Chartered Management Institute frameworks, the programme prepares senior hotel administration and management practitioners for executive-track roles and board-level participation.
By graduation, students are equipped with an evidence-driven dissertation, executive-practice exposure and industry-referenced knowledge of operations, revenue, brand and organisational strategy at senior hotel-group depth.
Master's students design an evidence-driven dissertation supported by executive-practice workshops with senior hotel-group directors. Sessions include board-level briefing rehearsal, chief-operating-officer-facing presentation practice and structured research-methods coaching across a research-informed cohort.
Master's students combine research-methods seminars with executive workshops led by senior hotel-group directors, developing the evidence-led outlook and boardroom vocabulary that top-tier hospitality groups look for when appointing executive-track candidates.
The LSILHHM syllabus for hotel administration and management is refreshed regularly with input from top-tier hotel groups and shaped around the specific expectations of executive-track hotel candidates. Every module ties back to the boardroom vocabulary and evidence-led outlook that defines strong practice in this discipline.
Key Features
- Postgraduate Master's aligned with Institute of Hospitality (IoH) standards
- Reference to Chartered Management Institute (CMI) executive-practice frameworks
- Awareness of UKHospitality and Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality reference standards
- Executive-practice workshops with senior hotel-group leaders
- Research-informed modules on operations, revenue and brand strategy
- Dissertation or capstone project on a hotel-strategy question
- Executive coaching and career-transition support
- Chief-operating-officer-facing presentation practice at Master's depth
- Structured research-methods coaching across research-informed cohorts
- Executive workshops led by senior hotel-group directors and chief operating officers
- Boardroom vocabulary coaching for executive-track hospitality candidates
- Regularly refreshed syllabus shaped by input from top-tier hotel groups
- Structured connection between Hotel Administration & Management seminar work and real UK and international employers
What You Will Learn
- Shape group-level hotel administration and management decisions
- Contribute to board-level operations, revenue and brand conversations
- Design executive-track transformation programmes
- Coach senior heads of department on group-level delivery
- Interpret strategic guest sentiment across a portfolio
- Support policy, corporate-governance and sustainability conversations
- Recognise safeguarding, welfare and regulatory responsibilities at executive depth
- Deliver a research-informed dissertation on hotel strategy
- Present a board-level hotel-strategy paper to a cohort acting as executive committee
- Design and deliver an evidence-driven dissertation on a hotel-administration question
- Present a board-level hotel-strategy paper with confident boardroom vocabulary
- Design an evidence-led dissertation on a group-level hotel-administration question
- Speak fluently about boardroom vocabulary and evidence-led outlook at interview and on the job
- Connect Hotel Administration & Management seminar case work to a real employer conversation at interview
Who This Course Is For
- Bachelor graduates progressing into executive-track hotel roles
- Senior hospitality practitioners moving into board-level responsibility
- Career changers with 5+ years senior experience without a first degree
- International students seeking a UK-recognised executive Master's
- Applicants planning to move into hotel-group executive roles
- Bachelor graduates targeting executive-track hotel administration roles
- Applicants who want a UK-recognised hotel administration and management credential that transfers across top-tier hotel groups
Career Pathways
- Hotel General Manager
- Regional Director of Operations
- Chief Operating Officer, Hotel Group (Trainee)
- Hospitality Executive Consultant
- Hospitality Programme Director
- Executive Director, Hospitality
- Corporate Hospitality Manager
- Executive-Track Hotel Candidate (Group)
- Executive-track hotel candidates (Progression)
LSILHHM's careers team supports executive Master's students with structured introductions to hotel groups, boutique portfolios and hospitality consultancies looking for senior leadership.
Hotel groups, boutique portfolios and hospitality consultancies hire postgraduate hotel-administration talent who arrive research-ready and board-ready, and this Master's is written to that need.
Entry Requirements
- A UK 2:2 (Lower Second Class) honours degree or overseas equivalent in any discipline
- Applicants without a first degree may be considered with 5+ years of senior hospitality or luxury service experience
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band under 6.0) or equivalent English proficiency
- A 500-word research statement covering the applicant's chosen area of hospitality specialisation
- Two academic or professional references and a short interview
Why Study at LSILHHM
LSILHHM is the London School of International Luxury Hospitality & Hotel Management, a specialist division of Harold International College of London focused on the strategic disciplines behind city hotels, five-star properties and luxury resort operations. Every LSILHHM programme is aligned with recognised UK and international bodies including the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and the Chartered Management Institute.
Our curriculum is written by former hotel general managers, chief operating officers and hospitality consultancy directors, and delivered across on-campus, online and distance-learning routes.
Master's learners on this route also benefit from LSILHHM executive-mentoring with former hotel general managers, chief operating officers and consultancy directors.
Master's learners on this route also join LSILHHM executive alumni networks that connect them with directors now working across UK and international hotel groups, boutique portfolios and hospitality consultancies.
Learners on the LSILHHM hotel administration and management route also join structured cohort meet-ups where they meet current students and recent alumni working across top-tier hotel groups, building the network that makes a first move in this discipline feel much less lonely.
The LSILHHM Master's route in Hotel Administration & Management is designed to feel connected to real UK and international employers throughout, with structured touch-points across guest lectures, career-launch clinics and alumni sessions. Learners tell us the point of these connections is not networking in the transactional sense but genuine visibility into how Hotel Administration & Management actually shows up inside modern hospitality businesses week to week.
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