德克萨斯理工大学

Texas Tech's hospitality business and retail management master's program is designed to develop working professionals who have extensive knowledge of the industry. Students will gain first-hand experience and develop skills in the areas of:

retail & hospitality marketing research
retail buying
category management
sales & cost control
event management

visual merchandising
strategic management
hotel management
restaurant & food service
sustainable tourism

Prepare to be an industry leader with our hospitality management and retail merchandising master's degree

Students in the master's program at Texas Tech will:

Have access to faculty who are industry experts in retail and hospitality management.
Join a passionate campus community that boasts in tradition and student excellence.
Grow your organizational and leadership skills that top employers require in the hospitality and retail management field.
Receive a degree from a highly visible, highly valued brand among employers and industry leaders. Our Hospitality and Retail Management graduate students have achieved success in hotel management, event management, retail management, food service management, and corporate management roles.

Customize the Hospitality and Retail Master's Degree to Fit Your Career Focus

The master's degree in hospitality and retail management offers two flexible career tracks.

The Professional Option is tailored to equip you for the professional hospitality or retail industry. This non-thesis track provides a practical business focus, emphasizing core business principles within the hotel, restaurant, and fashion merchandising industries. You will tackle real-world case studies, using actual data to investigate current trends and challenges in the industry.

The Research Option offers superior preparation for a Ph.D. program, or as an industry analyst, college instructor, or researcher. You will conduct independent research and write a master's thesis to document your findings.

Regardless of which specialization you choose, you will work with outstanding faculty who have many years of experience in hospitality and retail management.

Hospitality and Retail Management Career Opportunities

The world's leading hotel, tourism, and retail employers actively seek to hire graduates of our hospitality and retail management masters program. The majority of graduates from our master's degree program in Hospitality and Retail Management enter a Ph.D. program or receive industry job offers before graduation.

Employers from across the country and around the world aggressively recruit our master's degree graduates. You will have opportunities to pursue careers such as:

Category Manager
Trend Analyst
Hotel Manager
Corporate Buyer
Resort Director

Corporate Manager
Event Manager
Food Service Manager
Marketing Manager
Director of Operations
Sales Director