About Hospitality Management | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

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Now celebrating our 80th decade, the School of Hospitality Management at Penn State is one of the nation’s longest-standing programs of its kind.

With origins integrating a range of disciplines from business to home economics, this world-class field of study offers an engaging curriculum, hands-on research, and top-tier facilities, including an on-site full-service restaurant and state-of-the-art laboratories.

Our ever-evolving scholarship examines all angles of business management within a hospitality context spanning a wide variety of settings — from large global hotel brands, restaurants and wineries, event and tourism venues, corporate meetings and convention centers, franchises, start-ups and technology providers, and everything in between.

Student Spotlight

Lavi Peng uncovers how restaurants can attract solo diners in new study

New research led by School of Hospitality Management graduate student Lavi Peng found that people who dine out alone have a better experience and are more likely to revisit restaurants that both play slow-tempo music and use angular shapes.