Career opportunities

Hospitality management graduates manage restaurants, hotels, private clubs and other related hospitality businesses or plan social and corporate events that include food, beverage and lodging services. Sales management for food distribution companies or hotels and resorts are additional career paths for alumni. The National Restaurant Association projects the number of food service management positions to increase eight percent from 2010 to 2020. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a three percent increase in hotel and lodging managers and a thirteen percent increase in casino hotel managers from 2008 to 2018, and a thirty-three percent increase in meeting convention and event planning jobs from 2012-2022.

Mission

The mission of Kent State University is to discover, create, apply and share knowledge, as well as to foster ethical and humanitarian values in the service of Ohio and the global community. As an eight-campus educational system, Kent State offers a broad array of academic programs to engage students in diverse learning environments that educate them to think critically and to expand their intellectual horizons while attaining the knowledge and skills necessary for responsible citizenship and productive careers.