The Master of Hospitality and Tourism Innovation Management is a coursework and research‐based postgraduate programme designed to enable students to critically examine the characteristics and frameworks of the tourism and hospitality business and evaluate the scope for innovation management within them. Students will be able to apply concepts, theories, and methods of management required to effectively analyse and craft tourism and hospitality management strategies that can give an organisation a competitive advantage in the highly competitive tourism industry.

To be considered for admission to this programme, applicants must have C in English language as well as meet the General Admission Requirements of the NUST (GI2.1 in Part 1 of the NUST Yearbook). In addition, applicants will be required to attend an interview as the final stage in the admissions process. Mature age candidates will be considered provided they meet the requirements and pass the mature age entrance examinations of the NUST (GI.2.2 in Part 1 of the NUST Yearbook).

 Hence, the programme is purposely designed to enable students to progress to a range of middle and senior management positions within the industry in areas such as management and operations, marketing, policy planning and development, etc.

The Bachelor of Culinary Arts to provide students with the theoretical and practical principles and aspects of culinary arts, including hot and cold kitchen, charcuterie, patisserie and kitchen management. The degree aims to equip students with knowledge, professional, scientific and technical skills and values to pursue a career in Culinary Arts.

The Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management seeks, among other, to develop tourism programmes that are responsive to industry needs for specialists in Namibia and the SADC region as a whole. The Bachelor of Tourism Management seeks to equip students with broad knowledge, professional and technical skills and values to pursue a career in tourism management.

The revised programme is designed in response to industry needs in Namibia and the SADC region. A need for qualified tourism management experts in both the public and private sectors was identified and confirmed through consultation with industry key stakeholders and Programme Advisory Committee. Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in Namibia and highly labour intensive (see for example, Namibia’s Skills Deficit Report 2010, Tourism Human Resource Strategy for Namibia, 2011, Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Plan, 2015 & National Human Resource Plan, 2010-2015).

The programme includes all courses covered in the first two semesters of the Certificate in Hospitality Operations (Level 5). At this level apart from the emphasis on technical skills and quality delivery of customer service, there is also an emphasis on written and verbal communication skills, basic computer and accounting skills. The students are therefore expected to take additional courses in English language, a foreign language, and business accounting and computer skills.

The Bachelor of Hospitality Management seeks to enable students to demonstrate a systematic, professional scientific and technical knowledge, skills, and values needed to make decisions in the hospitality industry.

The Bachelor of Criminal Justice Honours is an initial postgraduate specialisation degree, designed for registration at NQF Level 8. The programme builds on the outcomes of the Bachelor of Criminal Justice degrees and aims at consolidating and deepening the knowledge and skills of students in the main cognate area of learning, as well as developing their capacity to conduct supervised research of an applied nature.