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    Nov 25, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Hospitality Management, BS with grad track option leading to Hospitality Management, MS


The grad pathway leading toward an MS with a major in hospitality management offers students an opportunity to earn first a Bachelor of Science then a Master of Science degree in a shorter time period and at less cost. Exceptional students in the Department of Hospitality, Event and Tourism Management  can obtain degrees in an expedited time frame. The grad pathway is intended for selected students as preparation to pursue career goals or for preparation to pursue a doctoral degree.

Admission requirements and program policies


Students meeting the admission criteria will be admitted to the hospitality management grad track pathway. The full-time faculty member with oversight responsibility will monitor each student’s progress through unofficial transcripts and will meet at least once a semester with the student to review progress on the grad track pathway. Students will be advised each semester separately with the HTM Graduate Faculty Advisor and the HTM graduate faculty with oversite responsibility. The director of undergraduate academic advising will ensure that the student is on track to complete the bachelor’s degree within one year after first enrolling in an associated graduate course. The program will be promoted through Preview and Orientation events, on the CMHT website, through CMHT Advising office and HTM faculty. A packet with criteria for admission and information about the program will be distributed to advisors, faculty and prospective qualified students.

Admission requirements


Students seeking admission to the grad track pathway in hospitality management will apply both to the program area and for conditional admission to the Toulouse Graduate School. An applicant must have successfully completed 75 or more credit hours of their bachelor’s degree program with an overall GPA of at least 3.5 before applying.

Students conditionally admitted can begin enrolling in the grad track pathway courses after completing at least 90 credit hours of coursework towards their bachelor’s degree program. Students must complete the bachelor’s degree within one academic year of their first pathway course in order to have the graduate course credits transferred to their graduate plan of study. Grad tack pathway applicants must receive approval from their undergraduate advisor and the pathway graduate program from which they seek admission to ensure that the graduate pathway courses satisfy degree requirements for their bachelor’s degree programs prior to admission to a grad track pathway.

Students seeking admission to the program should first speak to the HTM Graduate Faculty Advisor.

Program policies


Students conditionally admitted to the graduate school will start taking pathways courses after completion of at least 90 credit hours of course work toward the bachelor’s degree program. Students must complete the bachelor’s degree within one academic year of their first pathways course in order to have the graduate course credits transferred to their graduate plan of study.

Students who satisfy all requirements for the undergraduate degrees and who successfully complete the graduate courses required by the grad track pathway curriculum receive unconditional admission to the graduate degree program.

Grad track pathway applicants must receive approval from their undergraduate advisor and the graduate pathways program from which they seek admission to ensure that the graduate pathways courses satisfy degree requirements for the bachelor’s degree programs prior to admission to a grad track pathway.

Program requirements


Students may select up to 9 hours from the following courses, which are all 3 credits. 

All remaining courses for Hospitality Management, BS must be completed.