Postgraduate Program Overview - Glion Institute of Higher Education
1. The finest Swiss Hospitality Management Institute in
the World
Glion Postgraduate Program
Informative Session
2. The finest Swiss Hospitality Management Institute in
the World
This presentation covers:
An introduction to Glion
Introduction to the Industry
Postgraduate Program Overview
- Hospitality Management
- Event, Sport and Entertainment
Start dates and the application process
Glion Postgraduate Program Overview
3. Audience Target
This program is well suited for:
• Students who are looking for career change and who already have a
bachelor degree.
• Professional who are looking for a career change and who have at
least 3 years of work experience (not necessarily hospitality based).
This is an opportunity to learn the fundamental skills and knowledge
of the hospitality industry. Employers particularly appreciate the
diverse background and experience of post graduate students.
5. 1,700 students (2010)
95 nationalities
2 intakes per year in January and July
Type of programs:
- Hospitality Management
- Event, Sport & Entertainment Management
Emphasize on business
Accredited at university level by NEASC
Internship placement
Over 40 companies visiting to recruit our students and graduate each semester
A few facts…
6. Advantages
Academic programs
Glion’s curriculum incorporates general education.
Highly qualified and international faculty with many years of professional experience in the industry
Tailored made Postgraduate program to the student.
Career and Internship
Wide array of career tracks that range from hotels, resorts, airlines, consulting, real estate and more.
Exciting internship opportunities in the industry all over the world
6 months of internship opportunities
Strong Alumni network worldwide.
Student Life
Excellent leisure facilities that include a gym and fitness center.
Glion is at the heart of Switzerland, ideal for travels
Summer and winter sport activities: water skiing, paragliding, snow skiing, biking, hiking, boating and more.
8. Will my degree be internationally accredited?
Accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher
Education (CIHE)
Only 3 hotel schools in Switzerland hold this university level
accreditation
Many of the most famous IVY leage universities in the USA
are accredited by the same body
The New England Association of Schools
and Colleges (NEASC) - USA
10. A dynamic industry
The largest employer in the world
More than 3,660 luxury hotel projects currently in the pipeline
(www.tophotelprojects.com, March 2010)
Generated 9.2% of the world's GDP (gross domestic product)
More than 236 million people are working in and for this sector at
present
Expected to grow by 4.4% per annum in real terms between 2010 and
2020
By 2020, this will represent one in every 10.9 jobs
Source: World Travel and Tourism Council, March 2010
11. What matters to the industry?
MOST IMPORTANT
CHARACTERISTICS
% OF HIRING MGRS
RATING THE
CHARACTERISTICS AS
VERY IMPORTANT OR
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
% OF RESPONDENTS
THAT RATED GLION AS
“GOOD”,
EXCELLENT”OR
“EXCEPTIONAL
Professional attitude 97% 100%
Respectful of others 97% 99%
Customer oriented 96% 97%
Motivated 96% 99%
Team oriented 95% 100%
Hardworking 92% 99%
Flexible 92% 99%
Professional
appearance
88% 100%
Pro active 88% 99%
Organized 84% 99%
Self confidence 84% 100%
More than 90% of the hiring
managers who responded to
our survey rated career
prospects for Glion graduates
to be very good or excellent
and likely to be in the top
20% of industry positions in 5
to 10 years’
Source: GIHE, 2005
13. Hospitality Event, Sport & Entertainment
Two concentrations
Program Overviews
Postgraduate Programs
Postgraduate Diploma 3 semesters including 1 internship
Semester 2 Semester 3
Postgraduate Higher Diploma 4 semesters including 1 internship
Semester 2
OR
InternshipSemester 1
Semester 1 Internship
14. WHO? Degree holders or those with significant work experience looking for a career change
and wanting to tailor made their course based on their academic and educational backgrounds.
REQUIREMENTS?
•Bachelor Degree or 3 years of
work experience (not necessarily
hospitality based)
•Non degree holders will receive
a Professional Development
Diploma or Higher Diploma
•English language qualification
A Glance at the Curriculum...
CBL Restaurant and Kitchen or Room Division
Operations Management
Food & Beverage Management
Contemporary issues in the Hospitality industry
Rooms Division Management
Management Finance
Services Marketing
Customer Service
People Management
Business Planning
English or Foreign Language
Information Technology
Communications
Postgraduate program in Hospitality Mgt
Food & Beverage
Management
Hospitality
Management
Rooms
Management3 Pathways:
15. WHO? Degree holders or those with significant work experience wishing to change career.
Programme is tailor-made according to educational / work background and objective
REQUIREMENTS?
•Bachelor Degree or 3 years of
work experience (not necessarily
hospitality based)
•Non degree holders will receive
a Professional Development
Diploma or Higher Diploma
•English language qualification
A Glance at the Curriculum...
Craft Based Learning in Event, Sport & Entertainment
Operational Event Planning
Safe working practices
Managing performance and participation
Managing Events
Business Planning
Services Marketing
People Management
Financial Management
English or Foreign Language
Information Technology
Communications
Postgraduate program in ESE Mgt
18. 1 Tunisia
5 Turkey
6 Egypt
2 UAE
2 Israel
1 Azerbaijan
2 South Africa
1 Tanzania
1 Morocco
2 Jordan
1 Kuwait
1 Serbia
11 French Polynesia
14 Belgium
4 Ireland
12 UK
33 France
6 Portugal
1 Sweden
7 Germany
61 Switzerland
66 Spain
2 Italy
4 Malta
2 Crete
1 Ukraine
1 Romania
2 Greece
5 Russia
2 India
7 Malaysia
2 Australia
3 Vietnam
22 Thailand
5 Singapore
2 Indonesia
5 Hong Kong
2 Philippines
2 Japan
13 Korea
33 China
6 Mexico
1 Ecuador
2 Costa Rica
1 Honduras
1 Dominican Republic
1 Bahamas
12 USA
Where are our students on internship?
Source: GIHE, 2010-2
19. Career placement
3.5 job offers on average per student
88.4% employment on graduation day
Of which 30% are corporate/management training
Source: GIHE, 2010-2
20. Where do our alumni work?
Olivier Constantin (1985)
Directeur Réseau Sud-Est
Groupe Crédit Lyonnais
FRANCE
Massimo Ianni (1983)
Corporate Director of Operations
Armani Hotels & Resorts
UK
Annemarie Diaz F. (1980)
Owner
Florida Touristic Services
USA
Jacob Engelsman (1981)
Managing Director
Eurolines
NETHERLANDS
Karine Hyon (1999)
Director of Brands
ONYX Hospitality Group
Thailand
Fabrice Leclerc (1990)
Head of Innovation and
new business-luxury division
l’Oréal luxury international
ITALY
Joao Paulo Berger (1988)
General Manager
Sao Paulo Airport Marriott Hotel
BRAZIL
Manrique Rodriguez (1987)
General Manager
InterContinental Melbourne
The Rialto
AUSTRALIA
John Kioko Mutua (1982)
Chief Executive Officer
Leisure Lodge Beach & Golf Resort
KENYA
Monika Heldor (1999)
Product Specialist
Microsoft Advertising
Norway
Virginie Roux (1999)
Vice President
Lombard Odier Private Banking
SWITZERLAND
Claire Xuereb (2000)
General Manager
The Victoria Palazzo Capual
MALTA
Frank Savoy (2002)
General Manager
Restaurant Guy Savoy
Caesar Palace, Las Vegas
USA
21. The finest Swiss Hospitality Management Institute in
the World
Admission Department
Rue du Lac 118
CH1815
Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)21 989 26 77
Fax: +41 (0)21 989 26 78
Email: info@glion.edu
Notas del editor
Good morning and welcome to the Glion postgraduate program Webinar!
My name is Lucie and I’m the moderator for this session.
This session will cover different points as such as an overview of our school, the hospitality industry and an overview of our Postgraduate programs.
Then, our current students enrolled in the postgraduate program will give you more insights of how it is going so far for them.
Finally, we will give you some information about the application process.
Now I let Mrs Georgette Davey postgraduate program leader give you more details about our school and our post graduate programs.
Good morning! My name is Georgette Davey, I hope that everyone is doing great...
Lucie: Who is this program made for?
Georgette: Well, this program is for two different audience....
Glion Institute of Higher Education is comprised of two campuses, one in Glion overloooking Lake Geneva and above the famous town of Montreux. This campus is dedicated to the beginning of the studies where students will do their craft-based learning.
The second campus is in Bulle in the « Canton of Fribourg » at about 30 minutes drive from the Glion Campus. Bulle campus is dedicated to advanced studies and functions more like a university where students are more independent.
IMPORTANT: Depending which semester you start, you might be either on bulle or glion campus....
Great International Body
Type of programs
Neasc Accreditation
Internship placement: Internship officies here to help students find their internship
Companies coming on campus to recruit students.
Balance between practice and theory + internship
International faculty from all around the world with background in the industry
Tailor made program (PGD)
Wide range of career opportunities and internship opportunites
Alumni network who come on campus to help us and update the courses we teach to be in line with the today’s industry.
Student life is great : heart of switzerland, travels, sport activities and leisure facilities on campus. Everything is made to relax students and make them socialized with others.
When considering an education, there are 4 questions you should ask yourself.
The 1st one is about accreditation. Is the university you are considering accredited, hence will your degree be recognized internationally.
The 2nd question you should ask yourself is related to the professional world and the industry. Does the industry value and recognize the graduate of the industry.
The 3rd question is about internationalism of the school. How international is the student body and why is it important to be in an international environment.
The last question is about internship and career. Do recruiters come to the university and who comes? Where do students go and what do they do.
So now we are going to look at each of these questions and provide you some answers and tips to look at.
So let’s look at the first one which is accreditation and its importance
Glion is accredited at university level by the Commission on Institution of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and colleges in the USA.
There are only 3 schools accredited by NEASC up to the degree level in Switzerland: Glion, Les Roches and Lausanne. Other schools also accredited by NEASC such as SHMS / HIM are only accredited at non degree level which means up to associate degree or Diploma.
Having the right level of accreditation by a world class accrediting body insures the quality of what our students are learning and where and how they are taught. It serves as a protection for students and parents as to the level and quality of education we are offering and allows transfer to and from other accredited universities.
NEASC is also the same accrediting body of other prestigious and ivy leagues in the USA such as Harvard & MIT
Let’s now look at the industry, and how they value our school.
Large industry and a lot of career opportunities
Grows of 4.4% between 2010 and 2020
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2 main tracks
- Do they choose their modules as a tailor made program?
- How the craft based learning is divided between semesters and what are they doing?
GLION HOTEL SCHOOL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Post Graduate Programmes
A Glance at the Curriculum:
This part shows the 3 different strands separated by a thin line. The first part is the professional development, the second part the entrepreneurship and the 3rd one the general education pathway Most courses of this 3rd pathway are . Courses indicated are some examples and do not include all the courses.
GLION HOTEL SCHOOL ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Post Graduate Programmes
A Glance at the Curriculum:
This part shows the 3 different strands separated by a thin line. The first part is the professional development, the second part the entrepreneurship and the 3rd one the general education pathway Most courses of this 3rd pathway are . Courses indicated are some examples and do not include all the courses.
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Each semester, we have over 30 international hotel chains, luxury hotels and resorts, event management companies, financial establishments and recruiting agencies come to recruit our students, whether for internships and / or permanent positions.
The companies you see on the screen are companies that have come or will come during this semester including top international hotel chains such as Accor, Fours seasons, InterContinental, Fairmont, the Peninsula Group, Luxury Resorts & Hotels Group in the USA and Carribean, Starwood hotels which includes Sheraton, Le Méridien, Westin, St-Regis and other hotels. Hyatt International, marriott Hotel as well as the group Rezidor which includes Radisson SAS, Country Inn, Missoni, Park Inn and the Regent Hotels regularly come to our school to recruit students.
With our event, sport and Entertainment, we have for example iluka which is an event company highly involved in the next Beijing games which come to Glion to recruit young talents as well as Disney.
Financial establishment such as private banks are also recruiting our students in the financial track as they particularly appreciate their professional attitude, motivation and their service oriented mind.
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To illustrate the success companies have in finding motivated professionals and how successful our students are in securing a job upon graduation, students have an average of 4 job offers which results in 94% of our students already with a contract signed or with several offers to choose from and this on graduation day.
This shows that the industry does have many job opportunities to offer to our students and that our students are fully employable and do have a job when they graduate. Unfortunately this is not the case for many other type of education for which it can be very difficult to obtain a job upon graduation.
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Lucie: Thank you everyone for your time. We hope that you enjoyed this presentation.
If you need any other information, please contact us by email at info@glion.edu.
We will send you an email soon to give you the recorded session so you can review it in detail.
We will be still here for 15 minutes so you can ask more questions with the Q&A box.
Have a great day and we look forward to meeting you soon!
