Gyan Vihar School of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Jaipur: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Gyan Vihar School of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Jaipur was founded in 2004 is a constituent college of Gyan Vihar Group of Institutes which is specialising in hospitality education. This AICTE accredited institution is situated at Jagatpura, Jaipur and they offer a wide option of programmes in hotel management, tourism and aviation. The specialisation of the school touches almost all sides of hospitality through 11 offered courses and 5 types of degrees. Faculty strength of 16 is paragon to the requirement and will enable the college to offer individual attention to the students. This is still true despite the fact that specific enrolment data is difficult to come by; the school has an approved BHMCT programme intake of 60, students further enhancing this point that the school provides qualitative education in hospitality management.

Possessing quite a number of facilities, the school aims at developing facilities to foster the learning needs of the students. A modern library to support knowledge intensive facilities of the school; laboratories that simulation practical experiences are necessary for the hospitality industry. The campus has an arrangement for having different hosts for boys and girls so that all outstation students can comfortably stay in hostels. Facilities for games and sports, fitness centre are for personal over all; health and well being in addition to academic challenge. An auditorium is used for different activities, including seminars, to enhance the life of the campus. Gyan Vihar School of Hotel Management and Catering Technology also provides a fantastic Information Technology platform, which is essential to the modern hospitality learning process. Accommodation for visiting teachers and families of students is provided through guest rooms which are provided bearing in mind the school’s ethos of being hospitable right to within the compound.

Gyan Vihar School of Hotel Management and Catering Technology is equipped with courses to meet every need of the hospitality sector. The institute has offered eleven full-course programmes of which it offers bachelors ‘, diploma and vocational studies. These courses comprise of topics like and tourism, aviation and specific units in hospitality including production of food and cleaning. Though overall number of students that are admitted for all the courses are not mentioned the college has been approved to admit 60 students for its flagship BHMCT course. However, the information on the actual number of students graduated in the most recent year is not available at the time of preparation of this report.

The admission process that is employed in the Gyan Vihar School of Hotel Management and Catering Technology is a system that aims at identifying the right attitude of the student to the hotel business. Most of the courses of the University including the BHMCT follow an Online Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) test of 2 hours duration and personal interview for being admitted to the course. For example, in two programmes: Diploma in Front Office and Diploma in Housekeeping, students’ 10th and 12th board performance as well as SGVUEE (Suresh Gyan Vihar University Entrance Examination) scores are considered. Of course, the BBA Aviation Management programme states an entrance examination and interview for admission. Exam schedules are unspecified and therefore, potential students are encouraged to visit the college website or call the admission office to get to date on the current application deadlines and exam dates. The college has numerous numbers of specialised courses for hospitality education and Management, however, there is lack of information about the scholarships and prominent alumni of this college in above given records.