The Welcome Group Graduate school of Hotel Administration

By Priya Mathews
The Welcome Group of Hotels, is today one of India’s finest hotel chains. Each hotel pays architectural tribute to ancient dynasties, which ruled India from time to time. The design concept and themes of these dynasties play an important part in their respective style and décor.

The Institute is known as the Welcome group Graduate school of Hotel Administration (WGSHA). WGSHA has linkages with international institute in USA and Switzerland.
Welcome group Graduate school of Hotel Administration was the first Indian Hotel Management Institute listed by the council of hotel restaurant Institutional Education (CHRIE). The institute was started in August 1987, its training and development activities are recognized by the International Hotel Association, Paris.

The collage has been securing a majority of the top university ranking over the years. The graduates have got placements in hotels like (Welcomgroup, Taj, Leela palace, Holiday Inn, Le Meridien), airlines (KLM, British Airways, Gulf Air, and Singapore Airlines), travel agencies (Sita travels, Thomas Cook) and other organizations such as Citibank, Blue Dart Couriers, GE Capital and International Services.

The institute offers 3 courses: Bachelors degree (4years) Masters Degree (2 years divided into 4 semesters) and Diploma (3 years divided in 6 semesters.)They have Facilities such as Library and Labs. The library has nearly 5,123 books on Hotel management and allied subjects.
They have three lab kitchens and bakery which are designed to meet the specialized training needs of the students. All of the facilities are well equipped according to the industry standard equipments.

A Computer lab with 25 PCs of various Pentium configurations and 32 workstations is operational and available to the students. Besides this, the faculty members are provided with individual laptops.

The collage has centrally air-conditions classrooms with latest teaching aids like LCD projectors, direct projectors, VCR etc.

They also have facilities for sports like badminton, basketball, volleyball, table tennis and separate gymnasium facilities for boys and girls. They also have two swimming pools and standard gymnasium.

All the students are covered by a Medicare Scheme which entitles them to the best of medical care and treatment at the Kasturba Hospital.

Leading organizations from the hospitality world visit the institute every year for campus recruitment. The placement cell assists in placement of students with these organizations or in admission for pursuance of higher education.

For inquiries on admission and any other information please contact: WGSHA, Valley View International, Manipal-576 104