Hospitality Administration (AAS)

As a student in the Hospitality Administration AAS program, you'll take courses in customer service, food theory, menu design, and more. You can customize your education with a number of relevant elective courses. 

Required Courses

Associate degree graduates must complete a total of 60 credit hours:

• 16 general education course credits

• 44 program-specific course credits

What You'll Learn

Do you like serving others? Are you your family’s go-to chef or party planner? Maybe you’re looking for a career that allows you to be both creative and technical.

If so, the Hospitality Administration program could be the educational pathway for you! 

Ivy Tech Hospitality Administration students receive world-class education on state-of-the-art equipment to prepare for the workforce. 

While the skills taught vary across our associate degrees and certificate programs, here’s a peek into what you might do as a Hospitality Administration student: 

• Practice working effectively in teams.

• Gain industry-specific knowledge and skills to achieve operational efficiency and productivity in hospitality and/or commercial kitchen operations.

• Strengthen your written and oral communication skills.

• Adhere to the professional dress and grooming standards expected in hospitality operations.

• Grow your customer service skill set.

• Develop advanced knife, tool, and equipment handling skills. 

• Draw upon food preparation and baking science principles to create food products.

• Use classic, contemporary, and global cooking techniques in a state-of-the-art kitchen. 

• Learn the skills needed to work as a professional pastry culinarian.

• Master decorating and complex preparation techniques of pastries, confections, cakes, specialty cakes, wedding cakes, and dessert composition.

• Study bakery merchandising techniques and strategies to successfully run a bakery operation.

Career Options

The Hospitality Administration program at Ivy Tech provides more than a dozen career pathways for you to choose from. So whether you want to manage a hotel or work your way up to a head chef role at a fine dining restaurant, one of our associate degree or certificate programs could help get you there. 

Here’s where you could land: 

• Hospitality Manager

• Foodservice Manager

• Restaurant Manager

• Baker 

• Lead Baker

• Pastry Chef

• Pastry Cook

• Sous Chef

• Kitchen Manager

• Chef de Cuisine

• Bar Manager

• Cicerone

• Sommelier

• Mixologist

• Beverage Sales Specialist

• Caterer

• Cook

• Lead Cook

• Certified Dietary Manager

• Director of Dining Services

• Event Planner

• Meeting Planner

• Hospitality Supervisor

• Hotel Supervisor

• Food Protection Manager