Internships & Assistantships
The Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management offers students hands-on learning experiences through internships and assistantships.
Gaining Experience Through Internships & Assistantships
Internships and graduate assistantships provide valuable real-world experience that help students gain practical skills, build professional networks, and prepare for careers in the hospitality and nutrition industries.
Undergraduate Hospitality Management students complete internships to develop industry expertise, while graduate assistantships offer tuition support and stipends in exchange for teaching, research, or administrative work.
B.S. in Hospitality Management Internships
The Program’s Pre-Internship requires gaining a total of 200 industry hours during the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior years.
How to Accrue Hours:
Faculty mentors can provide recommendations and approve appropriate worksites for students.
- Assist with departmental and campus-wide events
- Work in the local hospitality industry
- Volunteer in the Lafayette-Oxford-University community or hometown
Approval: All hours must be approved by your faculty mentor before submitting the Verification Sheet.
Individually planned work experience in one or more segments of the hospitality industry, which must be approved by the instructor. This course is a supervised internship in an appropriate hospitality operation earning three hours credit and is required of all students whose major is in Hospitality Management. Internships can be completed locally, regionally, nationally or internationally.
Goals
The purpose of the Internship in Hospitality Management is to provide students an opportunity to develop applied competence in the food and beverage service, lodging management, casino, events, tourism, cruising, club management, managed services and meetings and conventions operations of the hospitality industry through structured on-the-job learning experiences in commercial and/or institutional establishments. Students who complete the internship will:
- Develop the ability to learn from a total job environment, utilizing available resources to develop technical, human, and conceptual competence in managing hospitality operations;
- Develop the ability to work within an ongoing business enterprise, meeting performance standards set for regular employees and management;
- Demonstrate individual performance in task areas related to management of a hospitality operation;
- Demonstrate professionalism and accountability in meeting all commitments necessary to be successful in managing a specific area of hospitality operations;
- Make consistent contributions to the work commitments of the hospitality operation in which the learning experience occurs.
Policies & Forms
How to Enroll
To enroll in NHM 484 Hospitality Internship course students should have a fully completed internship contract. The internship contract is included in the Forms to complete prior to internship (pages 1 – 3). The internship contract should be filled out by the student and their internship supervisor. Once you agree on the terms of the internship and have a fully signed internship contract, please upload it here.
Ole Miss Hospitality Alumni and Student Group Ole Miss Hospitality Alumni and Student Group
Hospitality Management students should join the Program’s Facebook Page, Ole Miss Hospitality Alumni and Student Group, to access valuable and timely information about pre-internship and internship opportunities in Oxford and throughout the U.S.
We encourage employers seeking interns or simply wanting to post job opportunities, to join the HM Program’s Facebook page by requesting to join the group. After receiving access, you will be able to post your own professional announcements.
Questions About Internships?
Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, comments, or concerns about our department's internships that you may have!
Katerina Berezina
Associate Professor of Nutrition and Hospitality Management
Graduate Assistantships
Graduate students in the Department of Nutrition & Hospitality Management have the opportunity to apply for departmental assistantships, which provide valuable experience and financial support. These assistantships often provide a tuition scholarship and a stipend to help cover living expenses in exchange for work in teaching, research, or administrative roles.
Students enrolled in the M.S. in Food & Nutrition Services, Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, or Ph.D. in Hospitality Management programs are eligible to apply.