Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration is a premier hospitality management school founded in 1922. It is the first collegiate program in hospitality management and today it is regarded as the world leader in its field. The School’s highly talented and motivated students learn from 60 full-time faculty members, all experts in their chosen disciplines and all dedicated to teaching, research and service. Learning takes place in state-of-the-art classrooms and in the on-campus Statler Hotel and in varied industry settings around the world. Since its founding, it has produced supremely accomplished alumni group of corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who have taken hospitality in new directions around the globe.
“Life is service – the one who progresses is the one who gives his fellow men a little more – a little better service” Ellsworth Statler, the man behind the Cornell Hotel School
Svenska Hotels has an educational alliance with the Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, under which Svenska employees are able to attend Professional Development Programs (PDP) and General Managers Program (GMP) at any one of the campuses of the School (in Ithaca, Brussels and Singapore) at discounted corporate rates. This enables our people to get the very best hospitality education and upgrade their skills with the help of the world-renowned faculty of Cornell Hotel School.