Human Ecology with Specialization in Food Service and Hospitality Management (Ph.D.)

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Admission

The department participates in the Ph.D. degree program awarded from the College of Human Ecology with a specialization in Food Service and Hospitality Management. Admission to a graduate program in the Department of Hospitality Management and Dietetics requires a bachelor’s degree for the masters and a masters degree for the doctoral from an accredited institution. Regular admission requires a grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. Prerequisite requirements include: management concepts, financial accounting, marketing, food production management, food safety, and 400 hours of industry experience. Students interested in hospitality management also will need prerequisite knowledge of hotel operations. All applicants are required to take the Graduate Record Examination or the Graduate Management Admission Test. International applicants are required to submit results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language. A TOEFL score of 570 (230 CB) is required for admission to M.S. and 600 (250 CB) to Ph.D. programs.

Ph.D. program

Students desiring to apply for the Ph.D. submit the above materials to:

Judy Jensen, Graduate Program Admission Coordinator
Kansas State University
Department of Hotel, Restaurant, Institution Management and Dietetics
104 Justin Hall
Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1404

The deadline for admission is February 1 for fall semester and August 1 for spring semester.

Doctoral degree requirements

The Ph.D. requires a minimum of 90 semester hours of credit beyond the bachelor’s degree, including dissertation research for at least 30 hours. The number of hours from a previously completed master’s degree which may be counted toward the 90 hour requirement is decided upon by the student’s supervisory committee and reviewed by the chair of the College of Human Ecology Coordinating Committee and the Graduate School. A maximum of 30 hours may be transferred from a completed master’s degree and a maximum of 9 credit hours can be transferred from graduate work completed after the master’s degree at another university. Doctoral students are required to take written and oral preliminary examinations prior to admission to candidacy.

Required course work for Ph.D.

See the Human Ecology section of this catalog for further information on the Ph.D. program.

All required courses listed for master of science
Statistics course(s) including analysis of variance, regression, and correlation
Experimental design course

HMD 980 - Administration of Dietetics and Hospitality Programs Credits: (3)
HMD 990 - Dissertation Proposal Seminar Credits: (1)
HMD 995 - Grantsmanship and Publication Credits: (3)
HMD 999 - Research in Foodservice or Hospitality Management Credits: (Var.)