BHM Course, Bachelor of Hotel Management

Overview

Bachelor of Hotel Management is a program which provides you the knowledge, skills and world of hospitality with an intention towards receiving guests, providing them best accommodations, food and beverages, travel and pleasant service for their stay in Hotels of Kathmandu. This course is generally a four years and eight semesters program which gives intensive knowledge of hospitality services including disciplines of organization Management, finance and also key insights of travel and tourism industries in one curricula of University designed BHM in Nepal.

overview

Students of Bachelor of Hotel Management make their path to explore and industry different operations of hospitality service industry.

During the entire course they will learn:

Front office operation, food and beverage service, food production, housekeeping, front desk service, guest relations, bartending and beverage management, bakery, Hospitality Management information, marketing of hospitality industry and laws of hotel business in Nepal.

Bachelor of Hotel Management program comes with an industrial attachment work called internship program which is of minimum 6 months duration around 540 hours where students are assigned roles in different departments of real world hospitality industry to work and apply their learned skills and prepare a report of their work and observations. Students can select to do an internship from any two departments of a hotel in Nepal.

General Information

The implications of the Bachelor of Hospitality program of various Universities in Nepal emphasize on acquiring the knowledge, relevant skills that facilitate the services of the hospitality industry. This program educates and trains students on sections of hotel operations and transcends knowledge to be able to understand the sum of all parts of hotel industry functions towards clients and guests. Since the services are inclined towards guest accommodations, bed and breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, housekeeping, tour operation, pick up and drop offs, entertainment for total satisfaction of guests out of their investment of time and money at hotels of Nepal. BHM course is designed for students to grow their wings in this realm and get well prepared, well educated on how the hotel keeps their customers/guests and gives them superior services with warmth.

The general information and overview of the BHM course are briefly explained in the table below.

University	Duration (in years)	Number of Colleges	Number of Seats	Credit Hours
Tribhuvan	4	25	More than 1000	120
Kathmandu	4	3	More than 100	132
Pokhara	4	15	More than 500	120
Purbanchal	4	9	More than 300	144
Mid-West	4	2	More than 100	126
International	3	10	More than 500	120

The chart below presents a thorough examination of the Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM) course, highlighting the disparities in the availability of this course among various universities

objectives of bachelors of hotel management

Here are the objectives of Bachelor of Hotel Management program for learners:

Gain technical and social skills for professionally handling hospitality industry services on day to day basis.
To develop entrepreneurial skills in managing the enterprise.
To work as supervisors in catering and hotel business.
To develop students research skills, personality development, attitude towards guest Management and marketing the hotel services.
To hone skills of Management, economics, law and finances for accounting, legal aspects of hotel enterprises.
Providing hands on training, experience of art of successfully handling the operations of food and beverage, customer queries and overall services smoothly.

eligibility for bachelors of hotel management

The criterias for Bachelor of Hotel Management are University specific. General requirement to study BHM program is the candidate must have passed Plus2 or intermediate level with 50 percent marks with English as a major subject and pass the CMAT entrance exam conducted by the specific University to match their eligibility requirements and be called for an interview and be selected again to qualify for the new intake study in Bachelor of Hotel Management from their respective Colleges in Nepal.

Documents required: You will need:

Marksheet of SEE and Plus2/Diploma
Migration and character certificate of Plus2
Citizenship copy
Photos recent passport size (2)

fee structure and scholarship

Entrance Exam

Each university administers an entrance examination as part of the admission process for the BHM course. The following criteria must be met to be eligible for enrollment in this program:

Prospective candidates are required to achieve a minimum score of 40 out of 100 on the BHM entrance examination administered by their respective universities.

Documents Required

The submission of the following documents is compulsory for the successful application for admission into the Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM) course:

Academic transcripts and character certificates for both Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SLC) or Secondary Education Examination (SEE) and 10+2 or Pre-College Level (PCL) qualifications.
Equivalence and transfer certificates, if applicable, for candidates with qualifications from foreign educational boards.
Two recent passport-sized photographs.
The entrance score sheet administered by the respective university.

Fee Structure

Bachelor of Hotel Management is a relatively expensive Management course in Nepal. Since it requires skill training and development, internship works and theory and practical lessons. The completion of the four years program cost minimum NPR 4 Lakh and maximum NPR 9-11 Lakh. The cost of BHM programs at foreign Universities is more expensive than the cost of national Universities BHM in Nepal. There are five national Universities and at least 12 international Universities providing this program to students from their respective Colleges in Nepal.
Here are the cost breakdown of Bachelor of Hotel Management course available at Universities in Nepal:

University	Cost (NPR)
TU	4,00,000-6,00,000
KU	6,00,000-8,00,000
PU (Pokhara)	4,00,000-8,00,000
PU (Purbanchal)	5,00,000-7,00,000
Mid-West	3,00,000-6,00,000
Foreign	8,00,000-12,00,000

Scholarships

Scholarships for BHM courses to students of Nepal amount up to fifty percent reduction in tuition fees to the students in their study semesters of Bachelor of Hotel Management program at Colleges in Nepal. Mid Western University provides full scholarship to the most deserving students in the BHM program. International Universities offer financial aid and scholarships to the outstanding students of the BHM program. Entrance exam toppers are rewarded with merit scholarships who secure high scores from competitive exam environments.