Career Opportunities

With excellent career opportunities in business meetings, conventions, sports tournaments, live festivals, community events or more, students who pursue the Meetings and Events Management Certificate develop transferable skills including strategic management, event and experience design, production, and risk management.

Learn novel but sound entrepreneurial concepts that span the hospitality spectrum. Examine business opportunities in lodging (hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts); food service (food trucks, quick-service eateries, and upscale restaurants); and online travel agencies.

The Senior Living Management elective introduces you to careers in senior living and life plan communities management with a focus from a hospitality perspective and on how the application of hospitality management can enhance senior communities and their residents.

Students delve into what it is to be a casino manager, gaining an understanding of the commercial gaming industry and how casinos are structured depending on the markets they serve as well as how they are regulated.