Career

A hospitality management degree will lead you to a career in Food and Beverage Service, Accommodation Operations, Travel & Tourism and Front Office. But, if you really want to become a chef, then ideally you should take up Professional Food Production courses such as culinary courses. LPU School of Hotel Management and Tourism is among India's best Hotel Management and Tourism colleges that groom students through industry-endorsed curriculum and intensive service-oriented practicals with industry exposure in excellent infrastructure. The school provides students with simulation labs, aviation labs, restaurant training labs, basic and advanced training kitchen labs that expose the students to real-life situations and environments. Apart from semester-long industry internships, students also visit landmark tourist destinations and hotels to relate theory with industry practices. The School of Hotel Management (LPU) has five modern kitchens with two bakeries. All kitchens and bakeries are equipped to enable students to perform scientifically and to attain their best of learning through the most modern gazettes. There is four training restaurant to teach a student about the authentic serving style of food and beverage. Infrastructure also includes one front office laboratory, two housekeeping laboratories, two computer laboratories with 60 computers, and a simulation laboratory for aviation. Industry internships in top national and international five-star hotel brands like Leela Palace and Resorts, ITC, Taj, Oberoi, Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton, Renaissance & Marriott (Malaysia ), Taj Tashi & Le Meridien Thimphu (Bhutan), Westin Turtle Bay Resort (Mauritius ), Taj Exotica (Maldives), Shangri-la (Thailand), Marriott & Hyatt (USA), Michelin Star Restaurant (L Auber Grade Trama) France, etc. If I talk about placements, the companies that visit LPU are Accor Group of Hotels, ITC Maratha, AISATS (airport Management), Oberoi, St. Regis, Shangri-la, Thomas Cook, Travel Triangle Radisson chain of hotels, etc. And Students of LPU School of Hotel Management and Tourism created the longest salad bar measuring 311.2 meters, made up of 7 different types of vegetables and weighing 1259 Kg. The FEAT was on display at Baldev Raj Mittal Unipolis. LPU School of Hotel Management organized a Mocktail Competition to let the students create some new thirst quenchers. Students created artful concoctions and presented them with great verve and flair.

Faculty at LPU have rich industry experience so that they can guide students about various aspects of the industry. They also help to enforce the spirit of research and entrepreneurship among students. As such, LPU has many innovations and patents to its name. Many on-campus shops and businesses are set up and owned by enterprising LPU students. Sometimes the SEED capital for a start-up is also funded by the university. Similarly, research papers written by the students have been presented at various national and international conferences as well as published in Scopus-level journals. The Startup School is a part of Lovely Professional University which has a mammoth ultra-modern high-tech campus sprawling over high tech gigantic campus on the National Highway No.1 at the entry of Jalandhar City. Technology is always on the background, the ideas to use this technology and harness efficiency and productivity lies in the 21 schools of LPU. If you are a Wannabe Entrepreneurs who wants to work in their field of interest, the Ideation Workshop helps them create some revolutionary ideas in those fields. "More and more LPU students are foregoing the comfort of jobs to start up on their own. "
The scope of entrepreneurship is tremendous in a developing country like India. The unemployment in the country is rising day by day. The problem of under-employment is also added to that. As per the report of Labour Bureau, the employment rate is 5% in 2015-2016, the highest in last five years. The percentage is higher in the case of women at 8.7% than men at 4.3%. As per the 5th all -India annual employment-unemployment survey under Usual Principal Status (UPS), the estimated unemployment rate was 5%. The solace is to promote the entrepreneurial activities in the country. There are of course strong reasons behind choosing this career path by the young generation. People are ambitious and wish to control the future. There is the scope of more profits. The country is suffering from unemployment problem and opportunity for alternative career options are lacking. Is committed to promoting entrepreneurship at a larger level. For more information kindly visit Lovely Professional University websites or call on Tel: +91-1824-404404.