There are a myriad of factors to consider when determining where to get your degree in Hospitality Management. When you first begin your search, it can be overwhelming as there are many schools across the globe that offer education for the hospitality industry.
As a result, it can be helpful to begin your search by seeing how the hospitality departments and programs at different colleges and universities rank against one another.
There are several organizations that provide annual rankings of international hospitality and tourism degree programs. Each organization uses a slightly different methodology to determine their rankings, based on what they believe contributes to quality education in hospitality.
We've compiled the top five rankings from different organizations, along with information on their individual methodology, to make it easy to see where a degree in hospitality from École hôtelière de Lausanne ranks globally.
QS Top Universities ranks a variety of programs by subject using the same four metrics. While academic and employer reputation are metrics commonly used by other organization, QS Top Universities is the only organization to assess the number of research papers authored by department faculty members that have been cited in other publications. The fourth metric used by QS, the H-Index, measures the productivity and impact of faculty members within the industry based on academic citations. As of 2019, none of the hospitality programs assessed by QS had any measurable H-Index score, so it did not impact the rankings. These metrics are:
CEOWORLD evaluates schools and programs based on seven metrics that assess the reputation of the school as well as the quality of education provided. The data they use comes from public available sources, as well as their own research, and surveys of graduates, recruiters, employers, and other industry professionals. Each metric is weighted by a percentage and the Overall Score (100%) is the sum of the following metrics:
The Hospitality Management Degrees considers four different metrics when compiling their rankings. Three of these metrics are based on surveys. They emphasize survey information as reputation is significant within the hospitality industry. They also focus on the number and satisfaction of international students within the progra, due to the importance of international business to the hospitality industry.
The four metrics used by Hospitality Management Degrees are:
Major educational website Educations.com ranks universities based on a variety of qualitative factors:
The ranking methodologies vary, but EHL is the only university present in the top 5 across all rankings.
Here are some of the reasons why all the major ranking systems giving EHL top honors: