To provide high quality, hands-on, career advancing educational opportunities within the context of a dynamic, technologically enabled, guest service focused and globally integrated hospitality environment.

Creating New TEMPOS in Global Business Education

• Integrating TECHNOLOGY throughout our hospitality curriculum.
• Delivering significant and unique EXPERIENTIAL learning programs.
• Familiarizing our students with the challenges and effective business practices to mainstream them into an international hospitality MARKETPLACE.
• Attending to the PROFESSIONALISM of our students through their integration into our professional enrichment best-practice program.
• Developing programs that are career ORIENTED and that focus on established and creative management techniques and practices.
• Focusing on STUDENT achievement through the ongoing assessment and continuous improvement of the hospitality program.

Career Centered Preparation

Upon graduation, students will have met their external experiential requirements and attained invaluable development beyond the classroom that will have enabled them to be most well-rounded and highly qualified candidates in the job market. 

Student accomplishments include:

• Graduating with at least 200 hours of industry work experience per academic year in residence at NYIT where they apply classroom theory in a real-world industry environment;
• Participation in at least one community service event per year fostering an appreciation for the relationship between the hospitality industry and our global community;
• Certification from at least two relevant hospitality related industry programs to build professional readiness and marketability; and
• Attendance at four hours of professional enrichment workshops and hospitality related tours and events to broaden their knowledge and development through wisdom imparted by industry leaders.

Student Focused

Our small class sizes ensure an intimate, personalized learning environment with faculty and classmates.  Moreover, an experienced hospitality faculty advisor will be available to students from the day they enroll at NYIT until graduation.

Society of Hosteurs

Students can become a part of the Society of Hosteurs, a college-wide student-run club that brings everyone within the NYIT community together for a variety of social, charitable and educational activities. Club members cultivate career opportunities by participating in Hosteur events that put them in direct contact with industry leaders for dynamic career options. Students savor opportunities to work professional events and participate in industry focused tours, including vineyards, casinos, hotels, restaurants, trade shows, international travel tours, and more.

Diverse Community

Our students come from around the globe to savor the opportunities provided by NYIT’s geographic location and access to the hospitality industries leading food service, lodging and tourism organizations.  Opportunities to study abroad are also available during the path towards graduation.

Industry-Experienced Faculty

NYIT’s Department of Hospitality Studies faculty and adjunct instructors bring unique and varied specialties with centuries of combined industry experience to provide our students with a progressive education in state-of-the-art facilities.  Most of our faculty have held executive-level positions in the hospitality industry, and teach with an experienced eye towards career success. 

Campus Locations

Whether students choose to take courses online, at our picturesque Old Westbury campus on Long Island’s Gold Coast, or in the heart of Columbus Circle at our Manhattan campus, students can plan course locations that are most convenient for them.

Technology Infused

From the Blackboard online learning environment, to our interactive virtual classrooms, we infuse technology into every course.  These educational platforms enable us to provide the most qualified instructor in our classrooms.

Dynamic Hands-On Coursework

From experiential internships, to beverage tasting courses, to on-site operations visits, our courses put you in intimate contact with the people and products that will prepare you for the industry upon graduation. Our B.P.S. degree enables our students to dedicate over sixty percent of their degree exclusively to our passion:  Hospitality.

Industry Focused

We offer outstanding student development through affiliations with internationally recognized hospitality organizations and associations, exclusive internship offerings and attendance at conferences providing unique and enriching professional developmental opportunities.

Strategic Initiatives

The Department of Hospitality Studies strives to integrate the School of Management key strategic initiatives into its curriculum:

• To ensure student competency and opportunity for placement and successful advancement in the business environment
• To ensure the development of business-related requisite skill sets.
• To provide seminars, workshops, forums and dynamic opportunities for students to engage in experiential learning activities.
• To cultivate partnerships by participating at conferences to further lifelong learning and an understanding of contemporary issues in the hospitality field.
• To publish intellectual contributions and attend activities and conferences for the purpose of presenting scholarly works.
• To create an environment for students conducive to success, including programs for individualized orientation, advisement, tutoring, student advisory committees, social engagement activities, and peer mentoring programs.

For More Information, Contact:

Ms. Stephanie M. Langdon
Staff Associate: Hospitality Studies
School of Management
slangdon@nyit.edu
212.261.1764

Dr. Robert J. Koenig
Associate Dean: Student Advancement Programs & Hospitality Studies Programs
School of Management
rkoenig@nyit.edu
212.261.1552