Why Students Choose a Hospitality-Degree Program

considerable body of work seeks to explain how students decide which college to attend and what they wish to study. The bulk of this work, however, relied on responses from matriculated college students. This paper reports on the reasons why highschool students chose to enroll in a hospitality-degree course at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. As we describe in some detail below, our results suggest that students see Contrary to some research and common wisdom, few of the students