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Tourism, Hotel and Spa Indrustry
The aim of the study programme Tourism, Hotel and Spa Management is to provide students with quality education and prepare them for employment in the competitive and rapidly changing environment of domestic and international tourism. This objective is achieved in the programme of study through measurable learning outcomes in the individual subjects of the programme of study and is translated into the student's ability at the time of completion of the programme of study.
Graduate Application:
The Bachelor of Tourism, Hotel and Spa Studies programme prepares students for professional careers in tourism, hotel and spa businesses in both domestic and international environments. Graduates of the programme are qualified economists - tourism service technologists and are prepared for entry-level and mid-level management practice in the tourism service industry. He/she is able to organize and manage business and operational processes and lead a work team in tourism enterprises. He is also prepared to run an independent business and within it to process various business statistics and analyses in order to monitor and evaluate customer satisfaction, to manage the brand of a tourism destination and its image. During the studies, the student will acquire a general knowledge of economics, law, mathematical and statistical methods, management and marketing, finance and accounting, and psychology. This knowledge is complemented by specialist knowledge in the areas that specify the operation in tourism, namely the basics of tourism and the geography of tourism, intercultural communication in tourism, technology of tourism services, creation of tourism products, tour guiding and the problems of travel agencies and travel agencies, management of tourism destinations, management of hotel services and technology of spa services. The acquired knowledge is complemented by professional communication skills in two world languages and practical skills in the creation of multimedia information documents.
Graduation from the study programme will enable graduates to perform the following professions specified in the National Qualifications Framework at the appropriate level of the Slovak Qualifications Framework (level 6):
- Manager of a tourist information centre
- Tourist information centre worker.
Based on the National System of Occupations, Sector Council Business, Marketing, Gastronomy and Tourism, the completion of the study programme will enable the following occupations to be carried out:
- Manager of a travel agency, travel agency
- Tourist information centre worker
- Manager of a hotel, motel, botel - smaller establishments (the degree requirement depends on the size of the establishment)
The structure of the study programme subjects, however, allows for a much wider application of graduates in the tourism market, which currently requires professionals mainly for the creation of tourism products and the management and marketing of tourism destinations. The acquired qualification will also enable the following professions to be pursued:
- employee (manager) of a regional tourism organisation,
- employee (manager) of a regional tourism organisation,
- Sales and marketing officer of a spa enterprise,
- manager of sports, recreational and cultural facilities,
- manager of a recreation centre.
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Conditions for admission to study in the 1st cycle of studies (Bachelor's degree):
The basic condition for admission to the study is the acquisition of a complete secondary education or a complete secondary vocational education, including the matriculation examination.
The admission procedure for the Bachelor's degree is held without an entrance examination, i.e. applicants for the Bachelor's degree will be admitted in the admission procedure without taking an entrance examination. All applicants applying to study at FMEO PU are ranked in order of admission to the respective study programme to which they have applied (there is always only one rank for each given study programme) and will be admitted on the basis of their results on the matriculation certificate and the position in the order of admission assigned on that basis, within the limits set by the teaching capacity of the faculty. The applicant's overall position in the final ranking is calculated based on a set algorithm, which is published on the Faculty's website (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu/informacie/uchadzaci/).
Priority (outside the evaluation by the algorithm) will be given to allapplicants who:
- have been enrolled by default and have achieved an arithmetic average of less than 1.5 marks on the matriculation certificate at any secondary school;
- were enrolled in and took the optional SCIO test (see www.scio.cz for more information) "General Study Prerequisites" (or Municipal Study Prerequisites) and achieved a percentile of more than 50, inclusive.
Required documents:
1. A duly and fully completed electronic application form submitted through MAIS (https://www.unipo.sk/cvtpu/hlavne-sekcie/MAIS/intro/) or paper application form delivered to the faculty address by the deadline, including the attachments mentioned in the following points. When submitting an electronic application via MAIS, the application must also be printed, hand-signed and mailed to the faculty's address.
2. Officially certified photocopy of the certificate of matriculation examination, which must be sent by post or delivered in person to the FMEO PU.
- Candidates who will take the matriculation exam in school. 2024/2025, immediately after the matriculation examination shall mail or personally deliver to the address of FMEO PU an officially certified copy of the matriculation certificate with grades.
- Applicants who graduated from secondary school outside the territory of the Slovak Republic are obliged to deliver translated and certified documents on the attainment of full secondary education with a matriculation diploma or full secondary vocational education with a matriculation diploma and at the same time Decision on recognition of the equivalence of documents on education for the purpose of continuation of studies (the so-called "Decision on recognition of the equivalence of documents on education for the purpose of continuation of studies" (the so-called "Decision on recognition of the equivalence of documents on education for the purpose of continuation of studies"). (information from the Department of Education regarding the recognition of educational documents is available at https://www.russ-po.sk/949-sk/nostrifikacie-uznanie-dokladov-o-vzdelani/).
3. Structured CV (possible to upload as an attachment to the e-application form).
4. Proof of payment of the admission fee (uploadable as attachments to the e-application form).
In case the applicant fails to deliver all the above mentioned documents related to admission, he/she will be eliminated from the admission process.
If the applicant for the Bachelor's study does not present such a matriculation certificate, on which one of the passed subjects is Slovak language (this is especially the case for foreign applicants), he/she is required to undergo a LANGUAGE ABILITY ASSESSMENT at the faculty to study the Bachelor's study programme in Slovak language.
Certification of linguistic competence to study a study programme in the Slovak language cannot be replaced by any certificates in the Slovak language. The dates for the verification of linguistic competence to study a Bachelor's degree programme in the Slovak language are set out in the introduction to this document. If an applicant does not attend the language proficiency test or fails the language proficiency test to study the study programme in the Slovak language, he/she will be eliminated from the admission list.
An applicant who fails to present a standard school leaving certificate, i.e. Such a certificate, which contains specific grades for individual subjects and at the same time the name of the secondary school attended (especially for foreign applicants), is obliged to take the DIFFERENCE TEST, which fulfils the role of a test of general study prerequisites, which is carried out from a selected part of the basic curriculum of the Slovak grammar school, namely from the part of the subject Civic Education - Basics of Economics and Economics. All topics of the differential test of the above mentioned selected part of the basic curriculum from the above mentioned subject will be published on the faculty's website in the section Education/Information for applicants (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu/informacie/uchadzaci/). If an applicant has passed the differentials test and the matriculation certificate submitted by the deadline contains the matriculation marks, the matriculation certificate submitted by the applicant will be taken into account for the purpose of ranking for admission. The dates of the differentials test are given in the introduction to this document.
The language proficiency test and the differentials test may be taken only once during the entire admission procedure for the academic year 2025/2026 (even in the case of applications for several programmes of study) and only on one of the five dates listed in the introductory sections of this text
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Related Notes:
All those candidates are also required to attend the language proficiency test exclusively on only one of the above five dates (14.04.2025, 05.05.2025, 23.05.2025, 05.06.2025, 16.06.2025, 05.06.2025, 16.06.2025.2025), who are still studying at that time and only in the course of the year 2025 will be finishing their studies at such a secondary school, which will not issue them (does not issue) a matriculation certificate after the completion of their studies, where one of the grades is a mark from the Slovak language.
For these applicants, verification of language proficiency on one of the above mentioned dates at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Business may temporally precede the date of their matriculation (but no other dates for verification of language proficiency are planned by the faculty in 2025).
Analogically, this applies to the obligation to take the differential test at the same time and on the same dates for those candidates who will be completing their studies at a secondary school that will not issue them a matriculation certificate with grades and/or the name of the secondary school after the completion of their studies.
Invitation to the language proficiency test and the differential test together shall be sent by the faculty to the candidate at least 14 days before the date of the procedure.
Final Information:
The application form must be submitted completely filled in including attachments by the specified deadline and in case of electronic application, the application form should also be printed, signed and delivered or sent to the address of FMEO PU. Applicants are strongly advised to include their own e-mail address and telephone number in the application form. In case the applicant fails to deliver all the required documents related to admission, he/she will be eliminated from the admission process. Applicants must pay the administrative fee for the admission procedure by bank transfer or postal money order, and proof of payment of the fee must be attached to the application form.
The decision on the results of the admission procedure will be made in writing within 30 days after verification of the fulfilment of the conditions (including legislative ones) for admission to the study.
Admission to the study is decided by the dean of the faculty on the proposal of the admission committee. The members of the admissions committee are appointed by the dean of the faculty.
A candidate who has received a decision of non-admission may submit an application for a review of this decision. The application shall be submitted to the Dean of the Faculty within eight days from the date of receipt of the non-admission decision.
Under Section 58(9) of Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education and on Amendments and Additions to Certain Acts, the faculty has the right to request information from admitted applicants as to whether they will be enrolled for studies. In view of the above, an applicant who receives an admission decision is obliged to inform the faculty within 7 days of receipt of the admission decision whether he/she will enrol in the study. If the applicant does not express interest in the study or does not provide the information within the time specified by law, his/her right to enrol in the study programme in question shall expire.
Further information regarding the admission of applicants to the Bachelor's degree programme will be published on the faculty's website (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu-ekonomiky-a-obchodu), which we recommend to follow permanently.
Additional information
A candidate may submit multiple applications to the faculty for study, i.e. for several study programmes, or for both forms of study (full-time and part-time). The application form must be duly and completely completed and accompanied by the required annexes. Applicants must pay the administrative fee for the admission procedure by bank transfer or postal money order, and proof of payment of the fee must be attached to the application form.
Note: When applying for several study programmes at FMEO PU, it is necessary to pay the fee for each application.
The application form in hard copy must be signed by the applicant in his/her own handwriting.
Conditions for international students
In the event that a candidate for Bachelor's studies does not prove such a matriculation certificate, on which one of the subjects passed is Slovak language (this is especially the case for foreign applicants), he/she is required to undergo VALIDATION OF LANGUAGE ABILITY to study a Bachelor's study programme in the Slovak language at the faculty.
Certification of linguistic competence to study the study programme in the Slovak language cannot be replaced by any certificates in the Slovak language. The dates for the verification of linguistic competence to study a Bachelor's degree programme in the Slovak language are given below. If an applicant does not attend the language proficiency test or fails the language proficiency test for the study programme in the Slovak language, he/she will be eliminated from the admission list.
An applicant who fails to present a standard school leaving certificate, i.e. Such a certificate, which contains specific grades for individual subjects and at the same time the name of the secondary school attended (especially for foreign applicants), is obliged to take the DIFFERENCE TEST, which fulfils the role of a test of general study prerequisites, which is carried out from a selected part of the basic curriculum of the Slovak grammar school, namely from the part of the subject Civic Education - Basics of Economics and Economics. All topics of the differential test of the above mentioned selected part of the basic curriculum from the above mentioned subject will be published on the faculty's website in the section Education/Information for applicants (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu/informacie/uchadzaci/). If an applicant has passed the differentials test and the matriculation certificate submitted by the deadline contains the matriculation marks, the matriculation certificate submitted by the applicant will be taken into account for the purpose of ranking for admission. The dates of the differentials test are given in the introduction to this document.
The language proficiency test and the differentials test may be taken only once during the entire admission procedure for the academic year 2025/2026 (even in the case of applications for several programmes of study) and only on one of the five dates listed in the introductory sections of this text
.
Related Notes:
All those candidates are also required to attend the language proficiency test exclusively on only one of the five dates mentioned above,14.04.2025, 05.05.2025, 23.05.2025, 05.06.2025, 16.06.2025, 16.06.2025, 16.06.2025.2025, who are still studying at that time and only during the year 2025 will be finishing their studies at such secondary school, which will not issue them (does not issue) a matriculation certificate after the completion of their studies, where one of the grades is a mark from the Slovak language.
For these applicants, verification of language proficiency on one of the above mentioned dates at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Business may temporally precede the date of their graduation (but the Faculty does not plan any other dates for verification of language proficiency in 2025).
Analogically, this applies to the obligation to take the differential test at the same time and on the same dates for those candidates who will be completing their studies at a secondary school that will not issue them a matriculation certificate with grades and/or the name of the secondary school after the completion of their studies.
Invitation to the language proficiency test and the differential test together shall be sent by the faculty to the candidate at least 14 days before the date of the procedure.
Without entrance examinations
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Conditions of admission without the entrance exam
Coordinator for students with specific needs
Applicants with specific needs are advised to contact the Coordinator for Students with Specific Needs before applying (more information on the Faculty's website under Education/Students with Specific Needs: https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu-ekonomiky-a-obchodu/specifickymi-potrebami/).
without entrance exam
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Apply the application for study
31.03.2025
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Annual tuition fees
Standard length of study: cost free
Study longer than the standard length of study program, parallel studies: 1000 €
The fee for admission procedure
application form: 30 €
E-application form: 30 €
Billing information
Account number: 7000199613/8180
IBAN - SK89 8180 0000 0070 0019 9613
SWIFT - SPSRSKBA
Variable symbol: indicate the applicant's birth number (without slash)
(The name and surname of the applicant must be included in the message to the recipient or in the note)
Address of the payee:
University of Prešov
Faculty of Management, Economics and Business
Konštantínova 16
080 01 Prešov
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Applications should be sent to:
University of Prešov
Faculty of Management, Economics and Business
Konštantínova 16
080 01 Prešov
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Last update: 26.02.2025 08:12