The University of California in Irvine, California, offers a hospitality professional course and a managerial communication course, which can lead to a hotel management certificate if completed with other courses. At Stratford Career Institute in Tempe, Arizona, management skills for the hospitality industry, introduction to the hospitality industry, and lodging, travel, and tourism and management in the hospitality industry are courses offered to students who are interested in hotel management. On the other side of the country, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, offers hospitality management courses leading to a master's degree in hotel management.
Finance courses specific to hotel management are offered at Cornell University; the University of California offers courses in fundamentals of accounting and budgeting. At Ashworth College in Norcross, Georgia, students studying finance for the field of hotel management are encouraged to network with alumni to find internship and career opportunities.
The University of California offers a course in strategic marketing and branding for prospective hotel managers.The school also promotes and coordinates internships to help students gain expertise in this area of hotel management. At hotelmarketingstrategies.com, a free online marketing course is available to those interested in learning the basics of marketing and planning. Cornell University also offers an extensive online-only course for a hospitality marketing certificate, which includes six courses in marketing planning, branding and statistics and research.
At the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, students learn the basics of law and legal issues in one of many hotel management courses the school offers, business and hospitality law. Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina, also offers a hotel law course, hospitality tourism law, which can lead to a certificate in hotel management if taken with other hotel management courses.