MBA in Global Hospitality Management Les Roches

• 1 year
• Full-time
• Remote study options available
• Choice of Specializations
• Consultancy project
• Campus: Switzerland

Taught exclusively on our Crans-Montana campus, this is our flagship graduate program. In one intensive year, you will set yourself up for a senior managerial position. Includes one field trip, a choice of two career-focused specializations in your second semester, plus a real-world Consultancy Project with a leading hospitality brand.

Through a curriculum integrating business strategy, management theory and real-world problem-solving, this MBA will give you the skills you need to thrive in senior managerial positions.

Taught over two semesters, the MBA has been developed in collaboration with industry experts to ensure maximum relevance to hospitality trends and demands. You’ll be immersed in business modelling and entrepreneurship, leadership development, sustainability, strategic marketing, and digital disruption.

The MBA is also designed to test your knowledge in the real world. As our most advanced degree program, it features two field trips and a real-world consultancy project.

Career Building and Networking

As an MBA student, you will have access to expert career counsellors to guide and support you as you pursue your hospitality ambitions.

Your Consultancy Project guarantees exceptional industry exposure.

And around 200 of the biggest brands in hospitality, luxury, finance, and retail come to our campuses every year - in person or virtually - to find their future leaders.

Accreditation

Les Roches Global Hospitality Education is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (formerly the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc.).

Les Roches Crans-Montana is recognized as a degree-awarding institution by the education department of the Canton of Valais. Les Roches Jin Jiang is also accredited by the Shanghai Education Evaluation Association (SEEA).

Faculty

At Les Roches, you'll learn from the best in the industry. Our faculty members are hand-picked for their expertise in their chosen fields – and with a student to faculty ratio of just 15:1, you’ll have plenty of one-on-one time to discuss ideas and concepts that could be tomorrow’s game-changers.

Each semester, we also invite leading figures from hospitality and related sectors to share their insights with our students as guest speakers.

Academic content

Hospitality Immersion Program (HIP): Essential grounding in the fundamentals of hospitality. Optional, designed for students without a hospitality degree/relevant experience, but recommended for all.

Semester 1: Includes personal development and leadership skills, managing complex organizations, financial analysis, strategic marketing, consumer behaviour and insights, hospitality economics, and advanced management topics.

Semester 2: Includes business strategies and performance monitoring, corporate finance, data analytics and decision making, sustainability and CSR in hospitality, plus second international field trip.

Choice of specializations:

• Advanced Revenue and Performance Management
• Hospitality Entrepreneurship and Business Development

Each specialization includes a bespoke Consultancy Project.

Field Trip

Les Roches MBA students enjoy an immersive business field trip*.

You’ll witness first-hand how world-class brands make hospitality magic happen in a global city.

Each trip has a carefully curated program of exclusive luxury hotel visits, meetings with top professionals, and social/networking events.

Your knowledge, and network, will be transformed.

*The exact location will be decided according to the current global situation

"Interacting with accomplished industry leaders, from property-level heads of departments to regional heads, makes it a humbling experience for each of us." Radhika Mathur, MBA student

Specializations & Business Consultancy project

In your second semester of study, you can choose one of two specializations:

• Advanced Revenue and Performance Management
• Hospitality Entrepreneurship and Business Development

These advanced topics have been created with your future career in mind. Each specialization incorporates our unique Consultancy Project, giving you the opportunity to devise solutions to real-life business challenges directly related to your specialization. It’s not a case study; it’s a real consultancy for real companies.

Previous clients have included: Beau-Rivage Palace Lausanne, Hotel d’Angleterre, Clinique La Prairie, Accor Hotels, Rocco Forte Hotels, Peninsula Hotels, and New York Times.

“I thoroughly enjoyed working with MBA students at Les Roches. I am excited to use their final presentation and project to push Hatchify forward as a new business.” Irene Forte, Rocco Forte Hotels

Les Roches is ranked in the global top three for employer reputation by the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2021.

Through an intensive one-year curriculum integrating business strategy, management theory and real-world problem-solving, our MBA in Global Hospitality Management will give you the skills you need to thrive in senior managerial positions.

Our MBA program is designed for ambitious hospitality professionals who are at least 23 years old and have at least two years of relevant work experience.

As a Les Roches MBA student, you will get real-world industry exposure and have access to our expert career counselors, who will guide and support you as you pursue your hospitality ambitions.

The Les Roches name is known and trusted by leading companies the world over for our highly employable graduates. Around 200 of the biggest brands in hospitality, luxury, finance and retail come to our campuses every year – in person or virtually – to find their future leaders.