Admission requirements
You’ve finished your undergraduate higher education and would like to do a graduate degree in International Hotel Management, making full use of your previous studies. However, you must have acquired the basics of the hospitality industry.
Vatel’s Passerelle Program was designed to enable students with a Bachelor’s degree in management to acquire the skills and knowledge in hospitality and restaurant services management to continue their schooling with MBA Vatel graduate studies, while optimizing their previous knowledge.
This is a ten-week program, where student have both theoretical courses and professional applications, both in restaurant services and in the rooms division of a hotel.
MBA year 1
When they have acquired the basics in hotel management and professional culture, students can focus on analytical methods and decision-making as managers.
MBA year 2
Studying key strategic rules and applying them in international companies from all fields leads students to define concrete examples of management in the tourism and hospitality management fields.
In their 5th year of school, students can choose from one of the 10 Vatel MBA Specializations.
MBA year 2
To get used to the recruitment process, students who will soon graduate look for their own internships, in line with their professional projects. This last internship, which must be validated by the school and which lasts for six months, aims to have students practice highly strategic managerial functions.
Admission requirements
In France: 2-year vocational degree
In Belgium: End of Secondary Studies Certificate + 2 years
In Switzerland: Maturité + 2 years
In other countries: The High School Diploma or A Level equivalents + 2 years
For those with a 2-year Diploma, the Foundation Year program was designed with you in mind, so you can hone your managerial knowledge and discover or delve more deeply into the professional culture linked to hospitality to continue with an MBA.
For students who want to do their courses in English: Required level in English TOEFL 550 (80 IBT) or IELTS 5.5 (academic) + cover letter in English.
Foundation year
The Foundation year program takes one year, divided in one academic semester (that covers theoretical subjects and professional applications) and an operational internship in a company. Upon graduation, you will be admitted to the first MBA year.
Foundation year
The internship during the Foundation year is a compulsory 5 to 6-month internship, either in Europe or in a foreign country.
Close to the professional fields they will soon be working in, Vatel MBA in International Hotel Management students:
You contact the Vatel Campus of your choice (at a forum, by internet, by email, etc.).
You send your completed application form and all other documents requested back to the school.
The school will study your file, and should you be admissible, will invite you to the next entrance exam.
You take the entrance exam in the school you would like to attend.
You will receive your results within a few days.
Your admission will be validated after an interview with the school director of the school you would like to attend.
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