About Hospitality Management
Now celebrating our 80th 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.
Women’s advancement to executive level roles in the hospitality industry has been steady, yet slow, according to 2023 Women in Hospitality research report conducted by the School of Hospitality Management.
