AA/AS in Hospitality Administration/Management

Lodging and food service businesses need supervisors and coordinators, and this program prepares students to fill those jobs. Instruction centers on business basics, including economics and operations management, and the degree can lead either straight into employment or onward to a university. The department notes that the associate degree can qualify graduates for coordinator and supervisor positions, among them front-desk guest service, event planning, housekeeping oversight, sales coordination and restaurant shift leadership. A transfer arrangement with UTSA means those who earn the Associate of Applied Science may move into UTSA's hospitality and events program and have all sixty credit hours count. Admission to UTSA is separate, so students must apply and be accepted there. The program is at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, within the Alamo Colleges district.