The Swiss hotel schools became
famous due to the mixture of practical and theoretical education
and training, through their dedication to professionalism and
discipline in a multicultural environment.
Joining a Swiss
hotel school, means joining something like the United Nations of
hoteliers. Most of the schools have a large variety of
nationalities and races among their student bodies. At "César
Ritz", for example, about 500 students come to study every year
from over 40 countries. Alumni are spread all over the globe and
create a real network of hospitality professionals. The faculty
is composed of instructors and professors from 15 countries;
they are well-experienced international hotel professionals as
well as highly distinguished professors from business and
general education fields. Technical installations for practical
training are 'five star' quality and IT and theory classrooms
meet world-class standards. Students cannot graduate from the
Swiss schools without having completed some practical work
experience in a hotel or restaurant. These practical training
periods vary from 6 months to one year and usually take place in
the Swiss hospitality industry.
This is not the
case with hotel management schools in other countries in the
world. Often hospitality management degrees are offered at the
larger universities. These programs generally lack the
professional component and practical training. In other
countries one can find excellent hotel schools preparing
students to become chefs, headwaiters and rooms division
managers. Those schools lack the management and academic side.
Following are
the list of Hotel Management Schools in Switzerland: