Penn State's career-focused online hospitality degree programs in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management (HRIM) allow you the opportunity to create your own customized professional development plan whether you are interested in taking a single course, earning a hospitality management certificate, or even completing your associate degree.

The HRIM menu of degree programs offers four "step-up" doorways that allow you to focus your objectives. Each doorway helps you to organize your educational activities into a customized professional development portfolio. The doorways are aligned by sector within the hospitality industry:

Restaurant and food service

Lodging/Hotel

Institutional

Career exploration (This is a special doorway for individuals, such as high school students, who want to explore the hospitality industry as a potential career)
You can enter through any doorway, start at any step, and take as many courses or steps as you need to meet your personal or professional goals.

Step One: Professional Development Certificate

Step Two: Hospitality Management Certificate

Step Three: Associate Degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management