Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration Master's Degree Requirements

Faculty | Master's | Courses

The Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration offers a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration (HRTA). The program includes HRTA courses as well as courses in the School of Management, Sport Studies, Education, Statistics, Regional Planning, and Resource Economics. Students may select courses from these and other departments to individually develop their particular specialty area of study.

Students are required to complete a minimum of 36 credits to fulfill the requirements for the master's degree. The degree requirements are as follows:

1. Students must demonstrate competency in the following areas: 1) computer literacy (word processing, spread sheets), 2) marketing, 3) economics, 4) statistics, 5) accounting, 6) finance and 7) foundations in the hospitality industry. Students lacking a basic foundation in any of these areas must complete courses to remedy such deficiencies (0-21 credits).

2. Professional Foundation (3-6 cr).

One or two background courses in HRTA are required for students without prior coursework in the hospitality field.

3. Professional Core (18 cr).

Every student is required to take the following six HRTA courses:

606 Hospitality Planning and Decision Models

640 Management Information Systems

644 Strategic Management in the Hospitality Industry

666 Human Resources Management

685 Marketing Management

693 Advanced Financial Analysis Man- agement

694 Research Methods

697 Hospitality Industry Project

(non-thesis)

4. Specialty Area (18 cr).

Students are required to choose a specialty area based on their individual needs. The specialty area consists of: two HRTA courses, two SOM courses, and a graduate-level course from any department (with approval from the Graduate Program Director).

5. Thesis Option (6 credits)

Students electing the thesis option may use thesis credits within the Specialty Area.

Application

Application for graduate study should be made directly through the Dean of the Graduate School, as described elsewhere in this Bulletin.A complete application consists of (a) the application form, (b) two references, (c) two sets of official transcripts of all college-level work, and (d) an official score report on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Information on the GMAT may be obtained from the Educational Testing Service, 20 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. Application deadlines are found elsewhere in this Bulletin.Action is taken immediately upon receipt of a complete application by the Graduate School.

Standards for admission are consistent with those described earlier in this Bulletin. A satisfactory GMAT score, as determined by the Graduate Faculty Committee, must be obtained by all applicants. Foreign students are not exempt from this requirement. The GMAT should be taken as early as possible in order to allow time for proper consideration.