Hotel Management Subjects – Semester-Wise List 2025

Hotel Management subjects : We humans love travelling around the world and this has caused a boom in hotel and travel industry. Career opportunities are increasing day by day in both hotel and travel industries. As we travel we want our experience to be hassle-free and drool worthy, this has increased the demand of professionals who can understand the needs to the traveler’s accurately. This hike in the demand of hotel management professionals is a great opportunity for the ones who are interest in the hotel industry to make their career in the field they love.

Hotel Management Subjects

NCHMCT JEE 2023 will consist of five sections namely Numerical Ability and Analytical Aptitude, Reasoning and Logical Deduction, English Language, General Knowledge & Current Affairs and Service Sector Aptitude.

 Opportunities available

If you are interested in hotel management, you have variety of options available. Such as:-

• Bachelor’s degree after 12^th
• Masters degree after graduation in any stream
• Diploma course

What is Hotel Management?

Before opting for the course you should know what you would study during your course. We are here to give you overview about this course.

This course involves a set of skills that you would develop over a period of time, that you help you to carry out all the functions smoothly. Functions that you would have to carry out mainly are management, marketing, relation building with guest, hospitality, catering, security, finance, housekeeping, etc. Also, you get to know about how sales, service and office management. During this course, you would gain expertise in many more areas.

Benefits of hotel management

There are various benefits of the hotel management course which are as follows:-

• Hotel industry is growing rapidly, this is resulting in increased job opportunities.
• This industry is apt for the students who want to work in the creative field. As you would have to deal with dozens of customers every day, you will have to handle all of them differently. You need to show to creativity to fulfill the needs of all the customers.
• As this industry is growing rapidly, you would get ample of opportunities in this field.

Duration of the course

• Duration of this course majorly depends on what course you have opted for.
• Bachelor’s degree would take you around 3 to 4 years. Masters degree would take you around 2 years.
• Diploma course would take you around 1 or 2 or 3 years, based on the course you choose.
• Now, this is your call that for which course you want to go for.

Bachelor’s degree options available in hotel management

If you want to do bachelor’s degree in hotel management, you get various options to choose from. The options available to you are as follows:-

• Bachelor of hotel management (BHM) – 3 years
• Bachelor of hotel management and catering technology (BHMCT) – 4 years
• B.Sc in hotel management – 3 years
• B.Sc in hospitality and hotel administration – 3 years
• B.Sc in hotel management and catering technology – 3 years
• BBA in hotel management – 3 years
• B.Sc in culinary arts – 3 years

Masters degree options available in HM

Similarly you get various option for doing masters degree in hotel management. All you need is to have a bachelors degree from any stream.

• MBA in hotel management – 2 years
• MBA in tourism and hotel management – 2 years
• Masters of hotel management (MHM) – 2 years
• M.Sc in hotel management – 2 years
• M.Sc in hospitality and hotel management – 2 years
• M.Sc in hotel and hospitality management – 2 years

Diploma course options available

You have various option for diploma course, you can do diploma course directly after 12^th or even after completing your graduation degree, this diploma course is called post graduation diploma (PGD).

• Diploma in hotel management – 3 years
• Diploma in food production – 1 year
• Diploma in food and beverages service – 2 years
• Diploma in hospitality management – 1 year
• Diploma in hotel management and catering technology – 3 years
• Diploma in bakery and confectionary – 1 year
• Diploma in front office management – 2 years
• Diploma in housekeeping – 1 year
• Certificate program in food production – 3 years
• Post graduate diploma in hotel management (PGDHM) – 1 year
• Post graduate diploma in hotel management, catering and tourism technology (PGDHMCTT) – 1 year
• Post graduate diploma in accommodation operation and management – 1.5 years
• Post graduate diploma in hotel and tourism management – 1 to 2 years 

Eligibility Criteria

You need to have some subjects in 12^th class to be eligible for hotel management course are as follows:-

• Communication skills ( English )
• House keeping
• Accounting
• Business law
• Nutrition and food science
• PR
• Travel management
• Human resource management

You need to have 1 or 2 of the above subjects in 12^th to be eligible for this course

Entrance exams

If you want to take admission in some of the well known colleges or institutes you need to appear and pass these exams. You get option to select the exam you want to give based on the college or institute you want to get admission in. The list of exams you can appear for is as follows:-

•        National level exams

1. NCHM JEE – both for UG and PG
2. AIMA UGAT – only for UG

• State level exams

1. UPSEE BHMCT – only for UG (for Uttar Pradesh)
2. MAH CET HM – only for UG (for Maharashtra)
3. WBJEE HM – only for UG (for West Bengal)
4. AIHMCT WAT – only for UG (for army institute)

•       University level exams

1. PUTHAT – only for UG
2. CUET – only for UG
3. IPU CET – only for UG

•        Hotel level exams

1. Oberoi STEP – both for UG and PG
2. Ecole hoteliere lavasa – only for UG
3. IHM Aurangabad – only UG

Skills required for hotel management

If you want you want to make a remarkable position in this field, you should have quality of multi-tasking and also you need to have some other skills, which are as follows:-

• Good communication skills
• Extrovert personality
• Creative
• Responsible
• Polite
• Soft spoken
• Committed towards your work
• Disciplined

Major Hotel Management Subjects 2023

In hotel management you get to learn various subjects based on the type of course you have selected. But some of the common/ basic subjects that you would have to study are:-

• Communication skills
• Food production
• Front office management
• Food safety and quality
• Food and beverage 
• Housekeeping concepts and practices
• Accommodation operation
• Western cuisine
• Accommodation management
• Accounting for hospitality
• Wines, spirits and liquors
• Management practices
• Organizational behavior
• Room division management
• Tourism concepts
• Bakery and patisserie
• Food and beverage management
• Marketing concepts and strategies

Semester- Wise Hotel Management Subjects

Semester 1	Semester 2	Semester 3	Semester 4
Housekeeping – I	Management Principles & Practices	Food & Beverage Service III	Front Office IV
Hotel Financial Accounting	Hospitality Communication II	Fundamentals of Computers	Food & Beverage Service IV
Hospitality Communication I	Food & Beverage Production II
Front Office I	Additional Language
Food & Beverage Service I	Food & Beverage Service II	Front Office II	House Keeping IV
Food & Beverage Production I	Environmental Science	Housekeeping II	Law
Additional Language	Hygiene & Food Safety	Food & Beverage Production III	Food & Beverage Production IV

Semester 5	Semester 6	Semester 7	Semester 8
Industrial Practicum	House Keeping Operations	Food and Beverage Production Management	Allied Hospitality Management
Project Report on Operational Aspects of Star Hotels	Hospitality Law	Entrepreneurship Development	Project on Marketing Feasibility & Fin. Viability
	Front Office Operations	Food and Beverage Service Management	Financial Management in Hotels
	Hotel Economics & Statistics	Travel & Tourism Management	Marketing of Hospitality Services
		Organizational Behaviour
	Front Office Operations	Hotel Costing	Accommodations Management
	Sales & Marketing Operations	Computers in Hospitality Services I	Computers in Hospitality Services II
		Travel & Tourism Management

Recruiters and Job Profile

After completing the particular course of hotel management, then, one can work as a hotel manager, front office manager, housekeeping manager, food & beverage manager, chef, restaurant and food service manager, banquet manager, steward and floor supervisors.

Recruiters such as ITC Group of hotels, Hyatt Hotels, The Taj Group Of Hotels, Oberoi Group of Hotels and other top hotels.