About Hospitality Management

Historical Marking for the School of Hospitality Management.

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Now celebrating our 8th decade, the School of Hospitality Management at Penn State is one of the nation’s longest-standing programs of its kind.

With origins integrating a range of disciplines from business to home economics, this world-class field of study offers an engaging curriculum, hands-on research, and top-tier facilities, including an on-site full-service restaurant and state-of-the-art laboratories.

Our ever-evolving scholarship examines all angles of business management within a hospitality context spanning a wide variety of settings — from large global hotel brands, restaurants and wineries, event and tourism venues, corporate meetings and convention centers, franchises, start-ups and technology providers, and everything in between.

Student Spotlight

Doctoral student develops framework to guide hospitality businesses in efforts to destigmatize the hiring of justice-impacted individuals

Led by doctoral student Sydney Pons, the Penn State School of Hospitality Management research team identified three major stakeholder groups — the hired employees, those in the correctional system responsible for administering the corrections process, and community partners that provide necessary workforce re-entry resources — that hospitality businesses should consider during the hiring and employment process.

Learn more about Sydney's research