Hospitality Administration (AAS)

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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. 

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2 Years

Course Details

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

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