Welcoming diners to your world-class restaurant. Wowing reception hosts with incredible catering services. Creating superb lodging or event experiences. Sound exciting? Ball State’s hospitality and food management program is a fun and fast-paced roadmap to upper-level management positions in the hospitality industry. This major offers you the opportunity to study a blend of theory relating to management and financial service practices, with a focus on experiential learning in the three main industry areas of event planning, food and beverage management, and hotel management.
Hospitality and Food Management
About The Program
Department: Department of Management
Credits Required: 120
Possible Occupations
- Catering Manager
Indiana Median Salary: $47,149
Dual Credit Courses
For onsite courses, please refer here to see if the course is offered at your high school.
Online
These courses are available online through Ball State University:
CORE Classes
- COMM 210 - Fundamentals of Public Communication
- ENG 103 - Rhetoric and Writing (English Composition I)
- ENG 104 - Composing Research (English Composition II)
- MATH 125 - Quantitative Reasoning
- MATH 165 - Calculus I
- FIN 101 - Personal Finance for Fiscal Wellness
- THEA 100 - Introduction to Theatre
- JOUR 101 - Media and American Society
- PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
- RELS 160 - Introduction to Religion in Culture
- HSC 160 - Fundamentals of Human Health
- PHYC 110 - General Physics I
- ISOM 125 - Introduction to Business with Integrated Computer Applications
- PSYS 100 - Introduction to Psychological Science
- SOC 100 - Principles of Sociology
- PHIL 202 - Ethics
- HSC 180 - Principles of Community Health
- FCFC 250 - Family Relations
Major-Specific
- NUTR 275 - Personal Nutrition