The University Of San Carlos Department Of Hospitality Management offers a competency-based ladderized curriculum leading to the completion of the Associate in Hotel and Restaurant Management (AHRM) and Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management (BSHRM) and the Bachelor of Tourism Management (BTM) programs in consonance with the prescribed CHED (Commission on Higher Education) requirements. It exposes students to skills needed in the Tourism Industry through its In-House Service Training Program (IHST) program.

The Department reserves the right NOT TO ALLOW a student to continue with the program enrolled and/or be under the Department of Hospitality Management based on the following specific RETENTION POLICIES OF THE DEPARTMENT. After admission to a program in the Department, the student is expected to pass all the courses including REED, PE and NSTP as prescribed by the curriculum. To be eligible for the Practicum, the third year or fourth year student must have completed successfully all the courses and its equivalent number of units of the first two and three years respectively of the enrolled program inclusive of summer including REED, PE and NSTP.

Before taking a higher HRM or Tourism major course, pre-requisite courses must be enrolled and passed. A student who fails in a subject/s must re-enroll in that subject.

Students who shall incur a “no credit” (NC) rating or fail in 3 courses (including REED, PE and NSTP) may be readmitted for the next semester only after signing a waiver that must be witnessed by Faculty Adviser and a parent or guardian. After signing a waiver and there is a repeated occurrence of “NC” or failure in the subsequent semester, the student will be advised to transfer to another program outside the Department of Hospitality Management. The Department will notify the parents or guardian of its decision.

A student will not be admitted in the Department on the succeeding semester, after due process based on the following grounds:

• Immorality in any form;
• Gross misconduct in the classroom, laboratory, related classroom activities, affiliating agency, and other public areas;
• Incapacitating diseases such as cancer, heart disease and/or communicable disease, supported with a medical certificate from the University Physician;
• Drug addiction;
• Alcoholism;
• Smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages within the one-kilometer radius of the school premises.
• Showing disrespect to persons in authority and peers;
• Cheating during examination and other acts of dishonesty;
• Plagiarism of reports;
• Forging signatures of school administrators, faculty and parents or guardian;
• Excessive use of cell phone while class is going on;
• Vandalism on school property;
• Not attending in extra curricular and co-curricular activities of the Department, the College or the University
• Borrowing chef’s coat from classmates or schoolmates;
• Distracting classes by making noise along hallways and corridors;
• Saying vulgar words while in school and affiliating agency;
• For male: not wearing complete uniform as prescribed by the university while in school campus; wearing of earrings, tongue ring and nose ring; styling hair that will touch the collar of the school uniform and hair styled with colors and highlights.
• For female: wearing uniform with tight pants or length of skirt that is above the knee; wearing more than one pair earrings; tongue ring, and nose ring; and wearing colored brassiere.