Bachelor of Arts - Hospitality Management

You want to be a hospitality and entertainment management pro — the one making the magic so people can gather, celebrate and adventure all over the globe. Learn from the best in the business in the perfect destination: Nashville. Music City’s interwoven hospitality and entertainment industry is dynamic and growing. Your opportunities are vast — launch a career in a major hospitality and entertainment company like Disney or Gaylord Hotels & Opry Entertainment, dreaming up the next exciting experience for their loyal guests and fans. Or prepare to lead in management areas like guest relations, finance, events, marketing or sales for destinations and businesses that support them.

Nashville’s tourism and hospitality industry, including hotels, restaurants, events, festivals, clubs, cultural attractions and its myriad of supporting sub-sectors including technology and transportation generates close to $6 billion every year in Middle Tennessee with years of record-breaking growth. As the second largest industry in Nashville, it employs 103,400 people and attracted 15 million visitors in 2019.  Every one out of 10 jobs in the world are part of the hospitality and travel industry – and these jobs are fun.

Let our experts train you to join the creative class of hospitality and entertainment managers at home or abroad. Imagine managing artists like Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett or Kelsea Ballerini or leading the launch of the coolest new restaurant on Broadway or expanding a culinary veterans’ next new venture.

Our program offers experiential, paid learning labs on campus where you'll gain immediate skills and practice in food and lodging management, as well as high-level events production within your first year. You’ll have the confidence and competence you need to grow in what interests you most and succeed in your chosen career. Our program will prepare you to create, collaborate and lead with a servant heart and an entrepreneurial spirit. We network alongside students into their community with grit, guts and bold ideas for one of the most competitive of markets.

When you graduate, you’ll have grit and persistence as a mindset, a pathway to a specific career, an industry network to call your own, a fundamental knowledge of hotel, F&B and events management, apprenticeships and jobs in the field.