This 100% online MBA Hospitality Management is designed for those seeking advanced expertise so they can lead and manage in the hospitality sector. As well as developing your critical thinking skills, you will also learn how to form strategic insights through exploration of the sector’s complexity and issues related to ownership and strategic expansion.
You will also grow a keen awareness of the operational functions unique to the sector including accommodation, food and beverage, and examine the characteristics of hospitality production and consumption, as well as the importance of branding and consumer behaviour to service development and delivery.
Overall, you’ll gain the understanding needed to perform in strategic hospitality leadership roles and graduate with the knowledge, skills and qualities needed to help steer the success of service industry enterprises on a local, national and global scale.
Our MBA Hospitality Management can help you prepare for your future as a service industry leader from anywhere in the world. Taught and delivered completely online, you can work to gain the qualifications and skills you need to progress your career without any on campus requirements.
The course’s design reflects the need for flexibility in completing your studies around important life commitments including full-time work, family and friends, and learn on a wide range of digital devices, at times suitable to you.
You can choose to study part-time, fitting your studies in around your life, or fast-track your career development with full-time study.
Finally, six start dates per year mean you can get started advancing your career within a matter of weeks, no matter what way you choose to study.
We’re proud of our business school’s research contributions, elements of which have been recognised as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally important’ in the latest Research Excellence Framework (2021), recognising the work of our academics as leaders in their fields.
Our teaching, inclusiveness, employability and facilities all make the grade globally too, with five stars in the QS World University Rankings 2023. It is the highest a university can be rated in these areas and a key acknowledgement of our commitment to progressing the careers of students worldwide.
Business graduates from Sunderland have secured roles in organisations such as Facebook, Microsoft, Sage, HSBC, IBM, Enterprise, Nissan, Accenture, Procter & Gamble, Merck & Co, Barclays, Nissan, Marriott Hotels, Viacom 18, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Adidas.
Our student population comprises a high percentage of international students and online learners spanning the globe. We’re committed to widening participation in the UK and have recognised for our efforts in this area with The Times/Sunday Times University of the Year for Social Inclusion 2021. We’ve also been shortlisted as University of the Year by Times Higher Education.
The University of Sunderland’s history educating students from all corners of the globe spans more than 40 years and our global focus lives on through our campus locations in Hong Kong, Sunderland and London, and international collaborations in the Caribbean, Greece, Kenya, Malaysia, Lanka, Oman, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tashkent and Vietnam. We’ve worked hard to develop a diversity among our students and help them to collaborate and learn together while forming their own international professional networks.
Our expertise, our cutting-edge technology and our vast experience delivering excellent online learning experiences to global students is key to what sets the University of Sunderland and our online MBA with Hospitality Management apart.
QTop 40 university (Guardian University Guide 2025)
Best in North East (The Times Good University Guide 2024)
More than 70% of Nursing research rated ‘world leading’ or of 'international importance'***
University of the Year for Social Inclusion (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2024)