Master of Business Administration Tourism Management
Advance Your Career and Gain Service Industry Skills with an MBA in Tourism Management
An MBA in Tourism Management can help you advance in your career and develop tourism industry skills you need to make your organization a success. With people traveling all over the globe for business, leisure, conferences, and events, it is important to keep up with the latest issues and tools in the hospitality field.
Through this program, you’ll learn a wide range of skills and advanced knowledge that can assist you in a variety of hospitality areas. Your leadership and communication skills will come into play when you motivate your staff to provide the best service possible for the diverse needs of your guests. You will also learn how to leverage the power of social media and marketing to analyze and identify new avenues of revenue for your tourism- and travel-oriented organization.
Pursue Your Degree with Confidence
- Liberty University is accredited by SACSCOC, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
- We tailor our graduate business degrees to the working professional. Take evening classes, 1-week intensives, and online courses to make your degree a better fit for your busy schedule.
- Explore state-of-the-art technology in our 78,000-square-foot School of Business, which houses a simulated stock trading room with New York Stock Exchange display boards, a 2,000-square-foot Entrepreneurship Center for Innovation, a Center for Cyber Excellence, and a Center for Financial Literacy.
- Network with like-minded peers and professors in one of our business-related student organizations and honor societies.
What Will You Study?
- How sporting events and recreational activities fit into the broader hospitality and tourism system
- How to communicate with people from various generational, racial, ethnic, regional, and international cultures
- How to use social, mobile, and online benchmarking and metrics in maximizing social media strategy
- Marketing, finance, business law, market research, organizational design, and operations management
Career Options for MBA in Tourism Management Graduates
- Hotel consultant
- Professor of tourism/hospitality management
- Resort manager/consultant
- Senior hotel manager
- Theme park manager
Facilities and Resources for MBA Students
- Study under faculty with years of experience in academia and the business industry.
- We tailor our graduate business degrees to the working professional. Take evening classes, 1-week intensives, and online courses to make your degree a better fit for your busy schedule.
- Explore state-of-the-art technology in our 78,000-square-foot School of Business, which houses a simulated stock trading room with New York Stock Exchange display boards, a 2,000-square-foot Entrepreneurship Center for Innovation, a Center for Cyber Excellence, and a Center for Financial Literacy.
- Network with likeminded peers and professors in one of our business-related student organizations and honor societies.
Admission Requirements for Graduate Business Degrees
Every application is reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and all applicants must submit the following documents and meet the minimum requirements for admission:
- Admission application
- Official bachelor’s degree transcripts with a 3.0 GPA or higher
- At least 15 hours of upper level (300-400 level) undergraduate coursework in business or our BMAL 590 course with a graduate GPA of 3.0
- Self-certification form (for students who are in the final term of their bachelor’s degree)
- Current Liberty undergraduate students seeking preliminary acceptance into a graduate program must complete a degree completion application through their myLU account
Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
Credit Hours
Available On Campus
Class Type
Residential
Transfer Credits
Transfer in up to 75% of the degree total
Next Start Date
Jan 19, 2026
Accreditation
Liberty University is accredited by SACSCOC
