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Department of International Hospitality and Service Innovation

International hospitality and service innovation (IHSI) minors integrate technology, information systems, and analytics with traditional business disciples.

They didn’t know it then, but RIT students taking Debra Meiburg’s wine courses back in the late 1990s were learning from a bona fide master—literally.

Spectrum News features hospitality and tourism management student Nika Pikulik.

Hospitality and tourism management students at RIT were given an assignment in their restaurant and event management class: create a pop-up lunch for 200, and come up with the theme, menu, pricing, even marketing. Nika Pikulik decided to honor her homeland with a Ukraine-themed meal.

Through Saunders College of Business finance and accounting degree programs, students learn to become expert decision-makers and problem solvers in the business world.

Saunders College of Business teaches students how to be effective leaders, communicators, and decision-makers in the global business world.

Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology has been ranked by College Factual for several of its programs.

Saunders College of Business prepares students to be expert problem solvers and leaders in their fields. Students in the management information systems (MIS), marketing, hospitality and tourism management (HTM), and accounting degree programs learn to manage and utilize data to maximize efficiency in their organizations.

Students in the organizational leadership and innovation (OLI), master of business administration (MBA), technology innovation management and entrepreneurship (TIME), and hospitality business management (HBM) programs learn to become leaders, change agents, and expert decision-makers in their fields by mastering foundational business skills and applying them in real-world situations.

Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology will begin offering two new master’s degree programs, exclusively online, beginning in the fall of 2023.

The Washington Post cites research by Edwin Torres Areizaga, chair, Department of International Hospitality and Service Innovation. (This content requires a subscription to view.)

Saunders College of Business has broken ground on the multi-million dollar expansion and renovation project at Max Lowenthal Hall.