After your bachelor Hotel Management

After completing your graduation assignment, you will be equipped to enter a variety of hospitality-related careers, at home or abroad. Alternatively, you might take up positions at other types of companies; conference venues, holiday resorts, wholesalers to the hotel and catering trade, or consultancy agencies. 

Career examples

As a manager in hospitality, you oversee the operations of an organisation that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Our graduates work across the entire spectrum of the hospitality industry, on positions as Banqueting Manager at a conference centre and Sales and Marketing Manager at the head office of an (international) hotel chain. 

After graduating you often start your career in an assistant position and over time, you work your way up to (senior) management positions in the hospitality branch.

In HBO Monitor 2018 (an independent guide containing a systematic quality comparison of study programmes in higher education) you can find an indication of the labour market prospects for recent graduates (average starter salary and percentage of unemployed among recent graduates). For the Hotel Management programme, the starter salary of recent graduates amounts to €12,69 a month before tax. A year and a half after graduation, approximately 97% of the graduates have found a job of which 92% on a Bachelor’s level.

To broaden your horizon and get to know more about possibilities and crossovers you can make with Hotel Management, you can choose a one-year master’s programme at Breda University of Applied Sciences after your bachelor’s programme in Hotel Management  :

• Master in Imagineering (Breda University of Applied Sciences)
• Master in Tourism Destination Management (Breda University of Applied Sciences) 

If you want to obtain a more in-depth view, you can choose a master’s programme in the field of hospitality management, for example:

• Master in Innovative Hospitality Management (Maastricht)
• Master in Hospitality Management (The Hague)

Once you have graduated, we would like to stay in touch with you. Because we are interested, but also because former students - more than anyone else - are capable of making a contribution to the quality of education at Breda University of Applied Sciences.

6,000-member Alumni database
Over the years, Breda University of Applied Sciences has built an alumni database with over 6,000 alumni registrations. It contains information on where our graduates currently live and work. Would you like to stay in touch with former fellow students? Register with the alumni database!