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What is the hospitality administration program at Ivy Tech?
From the Ivy Tech website:
Do you like serving others? Are you your family’s go-to chef or party planner? Maybe you’re looking for a career that allows you to be both creative and technical.
If so, the Hospitality Administration program could be the educational pathway for you!
Ivy Tech Hospitality Administration students receive world-class education on state-of-the-art equipment to prepare for the workforce.
While the skills taught vary across our associate degrees and certificate programs, here’s a peek into what you might do as a Hospitality Administration student:
- Practice working effectively in teams.
- Gain industry-specific knowledge and skills to achieve operational efficiency and productivity in hospitality and/or commercial kitchen operations.
- Strengthen your written and oral communication skills.
- Adhere to the professional dress and grooming standards expected in hospitality operations.
- Grow your customer service skill set.
- Develop advanced knife, tool, and equipment handling skills.
- Draw upon food preparation and baking science principles to create food products.
- Use classic, contemporary, and global cooking techniques in a state-of-the-art kitchen.
- Learn the skills needed to work as a professional pastry culinarian.
- Master decorating and complex preparation techniques of pastries, confections, cakes, specialty cakes, wedding cakes, and dessert composition.
- Study bakery merchandising techniques and strategies to successfully run a bakery operation.
The Hospitality Administration program at Ivy Tech provides more than a dozen career pathways for you to choose from. So whether you want to manage a hotel or work your way up to a head chef role at a fine dining restaurant, one of our associate degree or certificate programs could help get you there.
Here’s where you could land:
- Hospitality Manager
- Foodservice Manager
- Restaurant Manager
- Baker
- Lead Baker
- Pastry Chef
- Pastry Cook
- Sous Chef
- Kitchen Manager
- Chef de Cuisine
- Bar Manager
- Cicerone
- Sommelier
- Mixologist
- Beverage Sales Specialist
- Caterer
- Cook
- Lead Cook
- Certified Dietary Manager
- Director of Dining Services
- Event Planner
- Meeting Planner
- Hospitality Supervisor
- Hotel Supervisor
- Food Protection Manager
