Events and Hospitality Management
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Why study Events and Hospitality Management
The courses provide you with the skills required to have a successful career in the events and hospitality industries. These are huge service sectors that have lots of exciting job opportunities on a national and international scale.
In your first year, you’ll study the building blocks of business and how essential theories and models shape the industry and affect business. You’ll have the chance to learn about specific areas of interest as you progress through your degree, so you can tailor your degree to meet your needs.
Our courses have a strong focus on your employability. Our ASPIRE programme is embedded in our courses and focuses on your personal development and commercial awareness. You’ll get to work on live business challenges and hear from industry experts.
Careers in this area
Unsure on what degree to study? We understand that choosing a university and a subject to study is a huge decision. There are lots of things to consider. To make things easier for you, we’ve a created a list of popular careers in Events and Hospitality Management to help you make an informed decision.
Where you could go on placement
Our courses allow you to undertake a work placement, which gives you the opportunity to put your learning into practice and understand how theory works in the real world. Our students go on a wide range of placements across all sectors. Previous students have gained experience at places like Jury’s Inn, Awesome Events, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, DoubleTree by Hilton, The Stanwich Club (USA), Thwaites, Johnson and Johnson, Marriott Hotel and Greenwich Country Club (USA).
Our Hospitality Business Management graduate, Jevgenia Tomina, completed a placement at Jurys Inn. You can hear what Jevgenia had to say about her placement in this video.
Learn more from one of our Hospitality Graduates.
Industry links
Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Events Manager, Operations Coordinator, Marketing Consultant, Graduate Manage, Marketing Coordinator and Travel Agent at a wide range of companies and originations such as:
- Jet2Holidays
- The Venue, Jury’s Inn
- Kings Croft Hotel
- University of Huddersfield
- Optimum Medical
- Radisson Hotel
- Q Hotels, Marriott Hotel (US)
- FC Business Intelligence
- Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.*
What our students say
The University of Huddersfield offered the option to do a placement year, which was something that really sold the course to me as I knew straight away that I wanted to get work experience and break up the practical and academic side.
Lydia Shires - Final year Events and Hospitality student
AACSB Accredited
Huddersfield Business School is an accredited member of the AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
AACSB accreditation ensures continuous improvement and provides focus for schools to deliver on their mission, innovate, and drive impact. AACSB-accredited schools have successfully undergone a rigorous review process conducted by their peers in the business education community, ensuring that they have the resources, credentials, and commitment needed to provide students with a first-rate, future-focused business education.
AACSB Accredited and AASCB Business Education Alliance Member logos.* Source LinkedIn.
** HESA 2022.
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