Saunders College of Business News
Hospitality Business Management MS

CEOWorld Magazine has ranked Saunders College of Business #38 among Best Hospitality and Hotel Management Schools in the World, and #26 in the US, for 2026. The list includes 116 schools.

RIT hospitality students have revived “Puttin’ on the RITz” after nearly a decade, designing and executing a global-themed, student-run fundraiser from concept to completion as a hands-on experience.

RIT’s main campus has welcomed six international Fulbright Program students for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Our STEM-Designated master of science in hospitality business management (HBM), offered online and in-person, is designed to be completed part or full-time, providing students the tools to manage current and emerging issues and become a professional “guestologist” in the fast-growing hospitality and tourism business field.

Saunders College of Business continues to be a leader in graduate programs nationally and internationally.

Spectrum News talks to Jerrie Hsieh, professor, and Muhammet Kesgin, associate professor, both in the Department of International Hospitality and Service Innovation at Saunders College of Business, about a new workforce training program aimed at refugees.

Saunders College has been recognized as among the Best MBA Programs of 2023 by Abound.

For the first time, Saunders College of Business has been ranked among the “Best Hospitality and Hotel Management Schools in the World For 2023” by CEOWORLD Magazine.

Dwight M. “Kip” Palmer, a fifth-generation CEO of Palmer Food Services and the Palmer Family of Companies, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, given annually to a successful individual or individuals who developed a business that improved the Rochester economy or whose innovative management skills changed the course of an existing business or industry.

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

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.