Why Choose NCC’s Hospitality Management Programs?
Expand on your existing hospitality experience or take your first steps toward this high-energy field at Northampton Community College. Our hospitality management associate’s degree and specialized diplomas cover specializations in hotel management, restaurant management, and meeting and event planning, and are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration (ACPHA).
These programs are available on our Bethlehem and Pocono campuses, and some courses are also online. Graduate with the knowledge, skills and practical experience necessary to advance your career or to transfer to a four-year hospitality management degree program.
Gain Industry Experience
Hospitality is a hands-on profession, so learning to lead in this sector is a hands-on endeavor. In the hospitality majors at NCC, you complete practicum projects that involve real-world stakeholders. Your professor-mentors and Career Counselors can also help you locate and apply for internships with our local hospitality partners, where you can gain valuable experience as a leader and problem-solver.
Build a Professional Network
At NCC, your professors are experienced hospitality managers and dedicated mentors. Learn from industry-leading guest speakers and connect with NCC alumni who manage local, national and international hospitality venues. These connections—and the ones you form with your peers through collaborative, hands-on projects—can lead to invigorating professional opportunities and accelerate your career.
What You'll Learn in the Hospitality Degree
In the hospitality major, you pair essential skills in customer service, money management, and organization and planning with community- and personal growth-oriented understandings of interpersonal areas like stress management and cultural awareness. This holistic approach to hospitality empowers you to plan successful events, quickly resolve problems, promote positive guest experiences and invest in your own long-term success.
Program Details
Semesters: 4
Credits: 64-65
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Learn how to enhance guest services, manage rooms division and tackle the complex demands of hospitality law, financial reporting, sales and marketing, human resources management and strategic leadership.
Semesters: 4
Credits: 65-66
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The Restaurant Administration program covers food preparation techniques, dining room operations, menu planning, cost controls and the fundamentals of beers, wines and spirits, catering and convention services, restaurant administration and strategic leadership. Gain hands-on work experience at celebrated local restaurants as well as special events around campus.
Semesters: 4
Credits: 64-65
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Build on your talents in the event and meeting industries with courses on enhancing guest services, conventions and expositions, catering, weddings and social events, event promotion and financial reporting. The Associate in Applied Science in Hospitality Management: Meeting and Event Planning program involves real-world practicum experience that you can tailor to your desired arena—corporate, social, leisure, tourism and more.
Semesters: 4
Credits: 31
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Build foundational meeting, convention and special event management skills. Learn to effectively plan, organize, promote and manage aspects of hospitality, food and beverage, guest services and more. The two-year Specialized Diploma in Meeting and Event Planning prepares you for entry-level hospitality management roles.
Semesters: 2
Credits: 32
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Turn your food and beverage experience into managerial potential in NCC’s Specialized Diploma in Restaurant Administration and deepen your understanding of all aspects of restaurant management, including front-of-house business, supervisory duties, and convention services and catering operations. In courses designed with input from industry experts, study dining room operations, food service safety and sanitation, hospitality management and marketing, guest services, and food and beverage management.
Semesters: 4
Credits: 31
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Take on service and managerial roles in resorts, clubs, food and beverage vendors, and hotel operations with our two-year Specialized Diploma in Resort Management. Work toward certificates from AHLEI, STR, Cvent, Social Table and Open Table as you complete courses and industry-specific simulations in areas like guest services, leadership and hospitality accounting. You graduate prepared to advance your career into supervisory and administrative roles.
State Licensure
If you are a Northampton Community College student living outside of Pennsylvania or intending to complete an internship or clinical placement outside of the state in a NCC program leading to professional licensure, you should review requirements on the state board website to make sure that the program qualifies.
Licensure requirements vary from state to state and you may require additional authorization from the professional licensing agency in that state. Participating in a program from outside of Pennsylvania, if not properly authorized by that state's professional licensing board, could result in loss of licensing eligibility. If you need help or have questions, please contact the Program Director for more information.
