18 months to prepare you to be part of the next generation of global hospitality leaders!

Capitalize on the expertise of 2 leaders in their respective fields

Benefit from the faculty and industry experts at Institut Lyfe (formerly Institut Paul Bocuse) and at emlyon business school! The MSc in International Hospitality Management provides you with a solid foundation in general management as well as specialist knowledge in new venture creation, lifestyle hospitality management, brand design, and innovation management.

Study in 3 key locations and benefit from a true international exposure

Taking place in Lyon, Paris, and Las Vegas, the program gives you a broad view of the industry, general management knowledge, and specialist know-how. In Lyon, you will fully benefit from the traditions of world-renowned gastronomy. Then Paris will be the perfect location for a focus on hotels and French hospitality. Finally, you will have the choice to experience the excellence of American hospitality in Las Vegas.

Benefit from specialized and adapted hospitality courses

To help you master the complexity of hospitality-based business models, you will benefit from a series of adapted elective courses. Students who want to discover intensively the hospitality world will attend courses with more introductory content in an “accelerated” track. Students with some hospitality professional experience and hospitality diplomas will follow the “advanced” track.

You will study management in conjunction with the hospitality industry and join the next generation of global hospitality leaders.

This MSc program is approved by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles and holds a RNCP level 7 title. It awards a double-degree from both emlyon business school and Institut Paul Bocuse after an 18-month full-time course of study.

In addition to your degree, all students will be supported and guided on 1-on-1 career coaching through emlyon's Career Services Center. Graduates will have life-time access to the emlyon alumni network, comprising of almost 40,000 graduates in over 130 countries.

Students holding one of the following degrees can apply:

• For students holding a Bachelors degree (BAC+3 or BAC+4 equivalence)

We remind you this program is fully delivered in English. Therefore, English proficiency is required for you to be admitted.

For more information about admission requirements, please visit the school website.

Careers Service Track

As an MSc in International Hospitality Management graduate, we guarantee that you will be qualified to:

• Ascend (with experience and maturity) to the highest positions in lodging, food service, meetings, and events, or related general management.
• Specialize in a particular industry function: marketing and sales, human resources management, accounting and finance, operations management, strategic management, etc.
• Fill a post within a property or regional or corporate office of a multinational enterprise.
• Start a small or medium enterprise or take over a family concern.
• Pursue a career in operational or financial consulting, hospitality design, asset management, brokerage, banking, or related services focused on the hospitality industry.
• Fulfill the hospitality function in a non-hospitality industry or use related hospitality and business skills to advantage in the service sector.

Targeted Jobs

Meetings and Events Manager • Revenue Analyst • F&B Director • Strategy Analyst • Project Manager • Guest Relations • M&A Manager • Chief of Staff Franchised Hotels • Managing Director

Main Recruiters

Accor • Marriott • IHG • Club Méditerranée • Mama Shelter • Plaza Athénée • Four Seasons • Mandarin Oriental • LVMH • Groupe Paul Pairet • CBRE • Deloitte • Pitaya Consulting • Yacht Club Monaco • Ponant Cruises

Take a look at the current syllabus and course-planning on our website!

The 2021 Shanghai Ranking: emlyon in the top 3 of the best business schools in France, in the management category

emlyon business school is ranked among the top 100 best universities and business schools of the world, in the latest Shanghai ranking.

In the Management category, the School reaches the top 3 of best French business schools, behind Insead and HEC.

emlyon scores particularly well on the impact of its researcher-professors' output, and their capacity to collaborate with other universities and international schools.

For Isabelle Huault, President of the Executive Board and Dean of emlyon business school: “This ranking expresses the quality of the faculty and research of emlyon. Our ambition is to build on the School's academic excellence in the years to come, along with smooth articulation between output, broadcasting, and knowledge valorization. emlyon wants to attract the best professor-researchers and reach a total of 200 permanent professors in 2025.

The Shanghai ranking identifies the best higher education establishments worldwide and sorts them out by academic category, according to the quality of their research works, based on the following factual criteria:

• The number of articles published in the best peer reviews in management (top 25%),
• The research impact factor, measured by the number of times these articles are cited in other research works in management,
• The international collaboration between institutions in research,
• The number of articles published in The Top 1% of peer reviews and conferences on management.

Delivered in-person in Lyon and Paris, France as well as in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) with other international, immersive experiences.