Academic Certification and Curriculum Options

When you use hospitality management texts from the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, your students gain valuable knowledge that reflects the most current practices and trends in today's hospitality industry. They also have the opportunity to receive a course completion certificate from the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute.

No other educational source offers this tangible industry connection—a stamp of approval from a respected hospitality association that represents more than 10,000 lodging properties worldwide. The certificates are also backed by EI's experience in providing materials to educate hospitality students and professionals around the world for more than 50 years.

The AH&LEI certificates your students can earn ensure instant recognition when they apply for a job in the hospitality industry. Employers know that students who have completed EI's hospitality management courses are well prepared to handle supervisory responsibilities and become a valuable addition to their staff.

Curriculum Options

In addition to individual course certificates offered for EI’s 30-plus hospitality management courses, EI also offers groupings of courses that, taken together, enable your students to earn additional credentials. Your account executive can work with you to develop a curriculum for your school’s program that will enable student to earn these additional certificates. Your program choices are formalized through our Academic Partnership Agreement.

EI offers the following curriculum options:

• 12 - Course Hospitality Management Diploma
• 12 - Course Food and Beverage Management Diploma  
• 8 - Course Hospitality Operations Certificate
• 6 - Course Hospitality Fundamentals Program 

5-Course Certificates of Specialization in:

• Rooms Division Management
• Food and Beverage Management
• Human Resources Management 
• Accounting and Financial Management 
• Human Resources Management
• Club Management
• Marketing and Sales Management
• International Hotel Management 

How it works

The EI textbooks you purchase for your students come with an exam scan sheet. If you choose to offer EI's course certification to your students, call or e-mail your account executive to receive the final exam for the EI book you are using. Give your students the EI final exam, and send in their completed scan sheets, along with a class roster. EI's academic services department will grade the exams and report the results to you. Students who pass the exam with a score of 69 percent or higher will receive a course certificate. Those who pass with a score of 90 percent or higher will receive a certificate that notes that they passed "with honors." EI will send you your students' certificates, as well as a grade report listing the students and their grades. A permanent record is kept on file at the Educational Institute and student transcripts are available upon request. It generally takes two to three weeks to receive your students' grades. Timing may vary depending on the time of year and the number of other classes submitting exams at the time. You may also grade the exams yourself before sending them in to EI for processing. An answer key is provided with the exam.

If you would like to offer the EI-graded final exam, please contact your account executive or e-mail academics@ahla.com and request the exam materials for the book you are using. Your account executive will send you the final exam, along with instructions for returning the exams and class roster, either by e-mail, or if you prefer, in a hard copy version by regular shipping.