Course Overview

Hospitality is a dynamic industry that needs qualified supervisors and managers. Gain the skills to guide businesses in this fast-paced and people-focused industry. There's plenty of demand for qualified managers and supervisors with the skills to manage hospitality businesses. You'll learn how to lead teams in large multinational corporates as well as small niche accommodation businesses, cafes and restaurants.

Learn about food and beverage management, event planning and logistics and services marketing management from industry experienced tutors.

The skills and knowledge you gain are put into practice with a cooperative education project, which includes a professional work placement for a local business, which ensures you possess both the skills and the hands-on experience to succeed in the job market.

The Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management will give you work-ready skills to guide businesses in this fast-paced and people focused industry. There’s demand for qualified managers and supervisors with the skills to manage hospitality businesses.

Graduate diplomas are designed to be completed full-time in one year. It is possible to complete the diploma part-time, which will increase the programme duration.

Graduates will be able to:

have a sound understanding of the dynamic and changing environment in which managers operate in New Zealand and internationally, that will enable them to apply that knowledge at both organisational and strategic levels in a range of hospitality enterprises. On reaching the workplace, graduates will have current specialised knowledge and be able to integrate into their workplace environment quickly, having spent time through their course of study in a work context applying the knowledge and skills of the curriculum.

General Eligibility

• Degree; or

• Level 6 or 7 Diploma and relevant work/life; or

• Equivalent knowledge, life skills, work experience or study. 

Part Time Work Details

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Language Requirement

• IELTS Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5