Advance YOUR career in hospitality with a M.S. in Hospitality Management, Specialization in Mega Events

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Program Description

• Known as the MBA for the hospitality industry, students will gain specific managerial mastery to prepare them to work on the business side of a multibillion-dollar international industry.
• Opportunity to enhance your event management skills in producing events for over 10,000 attendees
• Courses focus on festivals, trade shows, major conventions, sports events, and concerts
• Larger events are more complicated, requiring:
  • Additional security and facility concerns
  • Budgetary & marketing pressures
• Gain specific managerial mastery to prepare you to work on the business side of the multi-billion dollar international hospitality industry
  • Career-oriented degree program
• Perfect for students who want to advance in their careers or want to pivot to a hospitality career
• No industry experience or previous hospitality education required for admission

Why choose hospitality?

Hospitality is the world's largest industry and getting a degree in hospitality and tourism management offers many opportunities in exciting and high-paying careers in all sectors of society, including: careers in hotel management, restaurant operations, beverage management, real estate management, event and entertainment management and tourism.

Students can work and run cruise lines, airlines, resorts, hotels, restaurants, entertainment and sports venues, night clubs and all kinds of businesses with a hospitality bachelor's or master's degree.

While studying at FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, students can get a head start on their careers through a number of one-of-a-kind opportunities, such as helping to run the largest gourmet gathering in the world, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival®.

Why choose The Chaplin School?

The Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Florida International University (FIU) is ranked a Top 10 program among U.S. public universities and 35th in the world best school for tourism and hospitality.

Our students are the only ones in the country to help run the world’s premier wine and food festival, The Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®) and have access to major global corporations, such as:

• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits
• Bacardi USA
• Carnival Cruise Lines
• Marriott International
• Burger King

Our beautiful Biscayne Bay campus is located right on the water. Students who choose FIU hospitality have access to expert faculty, a rich curriculum, and fast-track career opportunities - resulting in more than 80% of our students employed upon graduation.

The Marriott Tianjin China Program is FIU’s largest international program.