YTI Career Institute

Get a hospitality management career education

Serving south-central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, YTI is a private post-secondary institution of higher education. The institute offers degree programs along with other programs leading to professional certificates and diploma.

Committed students attain rewarding careers through industry-modeled, student-centered training and support of the highest caliber at YTI.

YTI`s aim is a beacon. Illuminating our course to the future, it brightens our students' prospects of a fulfilling career.

Business Administration - Hospitality

Program Length: 21 Months (7 Quarters)

Credential: Successful students earn an Associate in Specialized Business Degree

What all will I be taught?

• How to perform accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Accounting principles.
• Front office procedures.
• Principles of hospitality.
• Project management.
• How to write a business plan.
• How to perform marketing research.
• How to create sales presentations.
• How to use desktop publishing to create marketing materials (brochures/stationery)

What will I study?

• Hospitality Major
• Hospitality Financial Accounting
• Introduction to Hospitality
• Desktop Publishing
• Hospitality Supervision
• Front Office Procedures
• Resort Management
• Hospitality Marketing / Sales
• Hospitality Quality Management
• Hospitality Computer Systems
• Facilities Management
• Housekeeping Management
• Human Resource Management
• Business Law & Ethics
• Food & Beverage Management
• Convention Management & Services Externship

Culinary Arts / Restaurant Management

If youve ever dreamed of owning your own restaurant or being the next celebrity chef, YTI can help you make those dreams a reality. At YTI Career Institute, you get practical training that is modeled after the industry and results oriented. Our latest renovated 52,000 square foot facility gives a technologically-advanced learning environment to the students.

• There are 4 teaching kitchen labs each of them stocked with the same culinary used in the industry elsewhere.
• A demonstration kitchen, a space of 2,000 square feet, can accommodate an audience of 125 in comfortable theater type seats.
• A prototype restaurant having a capacity to seat 72 people, with a service & computer station for orders to the kitchen.
• Seven rooms to be used for teaching classes.

You will be prepared to enter into the exciting realm of the food service industry with a solid foundation for success as a graduate of the YTI Culinary Arts/ Restaurant Management program.

The program lasts 21 months or 7 quarters.

Here are some of the things you can expect to learn:

• How to create stocks.
• How to prepare primal cuts of meat, poultry and seafood.
• How to make use of different cooking methods.
• How to prepare lean dough, rich dough and assorted basic pastry products.
• How to prepare cuisines from various regions of the world.
• How to work at various positions within the restaurant kitchen.

Where are the career opportunities?

Career opportunities abound in fine dining restaurants, catering services, hotels/conference centers, country clubs, and national restaurant chains.