LPU School of Hotel Management and Tourism (SHMT) producing industry-oriented professionals

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LPU School of Hotel Management and Tourism (SHMT) has emerged as one of the finest hospitality and tourism schools in the region and has accrued praise and admiration from industry experts for producing industry-oriented professionals. What stands the school apart is its focus on training students for real life projects. The campus is equipped with one of its kind in-campus 4-star “UNIHotel” that empowers the students to apply their in-class learnings to real-life situations and invent innovative solutions in accommodation, catering and administration. Regularly conducted culinary workshops, fests and guest lectures give students the opportunity to interact with established experts from the hotel industry.

During these events, GMs and Head Chefs of top hotels like Hyatt Regency and The Oberoi, renowned Chef and Maestros like Vikas Khanna visit the school and share their experiences with the students. The students of SHMT have the record of making the world’s longest salad bar credited to them in 2018. The school follows an innovative pedagogy that uses unique teaching practices like VARK (Visual, Auditory, Read & Write and Kinesthetic) that ensures learning by heart and is equipped with practical amenities like Basic Training Kitchen, Quantity Food Kitchen and 304 grade kitchen equipments.

Setting sky high achievement standards, students of SHMT have secured 100% placement with record high placement offer of Rs. 25 lakh per annum by Ritz and Carlton, USA. Some of the prominent brands that recruit the SHMT students are The Oberoi Group, The Leela, Taj hotels, Ramada, Radisson, Hyatt Regency Miami (USA), Zuri, Ananda Spa, Leonia Holistic, ITC Fortune, Jet Airways, Air Vistara, and many more. Qatar Airways selected SHMT students at a package of Rs. 18 lakh per annum.

The School has had the pleasure of serving esteemed guests like honorable president of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Noble Laureate Dalai Lama and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan who were at the university.

The school has memberships of FHRAI (Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India) and ICHRIE (International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and, Institutional Education) giving students the opportunity to learn continental and international cuisines, hence enhancing international cooking skills. The airlines and tourism students go through mock drills and experiments in specially designed aviation labs during which students get trained in handling emergency situations, special customers, announcements and other such services.

School of Hotel Management and Tourism, Lovely Professional University offers courses in Hotel Management, Tourism, Airlines, and also offers diploma courses in Bakery & Confectionary and Food Production. Hospitality Sector is one of the fastest growing industries in the world that offers a range of options to make a career both in India and abroad. With strong industry tie-ups and collaborations, many national as well as international students have sought admission in SHMT making it a diverse community of students from different parts of the world further bolstering the global environment that nurtures Hospitality and Tourism students in to becoming professionals that can effectively function and perform at an international level.