About IMI

We promise to find job opportunities for all our graduates. This makes us exceptional among hotel schools. In the first weeks at IMI, you will meet with our Head of Career Services to start your personal development programme. Our excellent industry contacts and on-campus recruitment mean that during your time at IMI you will attend inspirational presentations and interview with major hotel chains and industry leaders. Internships are paid and are tailored to your individual needs to allow you to develop and hone the skills learnt in the classroom. Our Internship office will find you a paid practical training after every semester either in Switzerland or abroad.

A qualification from IMI is a stamp of excellence on any CV and will ensure that you are top of the pile for those first important interviews. Here at IMI we have made it our mission to give great value for money in terms of the education you receive. Why take four years when we can achieve it all in two and a half. To do this, we have deliberately restricted numbers to ensure small class sizes and excellent student/ teacher ratios. You can complete your degree nearly a whole year earlier without compromising on quality. This means you will have been earning for twelve months before you would have graduated from almost any other validated University.

IMI combines the very best of Swiss practical and British academic approaches to develop your full potential. Our courses are validated by Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and are under constant review from our Industry Advisory Board and our Academic Advisory Board. Our faculty are among the highest qualified of any hotel school with 30 percent holding PhDs and all educated to at least Masters level.

Luzern is a beautiful, medieval, university city with a large international student population. It is in the heart of German speaking Switzerland, a region famous for its quality education. Of all the cities in Switzerland, Luzern is considered the most beautiful. Thanks to Switzerland’s amazing rail and road network and five international airports you can use your time at IMI to explore all of Europe. You can be in class in the morning and lying on a beach in Nice in the afternoon or skiing at daybreak and perusing the Louvre by nightfall.

IMI is a friendly school where the emphasis is on creating happy, confident and successful students. We are also an international school and we pride ourselves on diversity. Each semester we welcome students of many different nationalities and social backgrounds. IMI positions itself unequivocally as an academic and inclusive school in which strong personalised academic support ensures that no-one is left behind. It is this staff dedication and student focus which give our graduates the confidence and professionalism which makes them so attractive to future employers.

IMI is one of the very few Hotel Management Schools still owned and managed by a Swiss family who are actively involved in the school’s operations. Many of the hotel management schools, particularly in the French speaking part of Switzerland, who call themselves Swiss, are in fact run by American corporations or distant investment companies. Only a truly Swiss School can guarantee the high quality standards of a ‘Swiss Made’ brand. We do not pretend to be Swiss, we are Swiss!