During the 3 bachelor years at Vatel Switzerland, I spent 3 semesters at school and the 3 other doing an internship. Even at school, half of the time is spent at the Vatel Hotel working in the various departments. This is why I chose Vatel.
We start working at school so that when we graduate we have the knowledge and the experience.
Classes are small: no more than 25 students per class and the teachers all have very interesting backgrounds. Our subjects are the same as in business schools to which are added hospitality subjects such as nutrition, Food&Beverage history, …
The things I loved the most was our cosy environment due to the size of the school: less than 500 students and a small faculty. I was eager to go back to school after my internships to see everyone again. There was not one person I didn’t know the name of and teachers were our mentors. Vatel was like a second family that I can’t wait to see again at Alumni events!
If you wish to study hospitality business and want to have hands on experience, you should come to Vatel. The price is relatively low compared to other hospitality schools and you’ll get the chance to earn a fair amount of money during internships and part time jobs.
Know that the school is not in a big city, Switzerland doesn’t have any anyways, but if you like the outdoors, it’s the right place to go!
Being a small school it does not have a proper campus but rooms are available for students as well as a cafeteria.
The school is still pretty new and thus always adjusting and making changes which could be quite annoying but looking back we contributed to that change andI’m proud of it.