An Award-Winning School in a World-Class Hospitality Ecosystem

Sunway University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (SHTM) is a Malaysia-based school specialising in hospitality management, culinary arts and food innovation, tourism, and business events education. Located within Sunway City, a fully integrated resort city, SHTM offers a distinctive learning environment surrounded by luxury hotels, resorts, theme parks, shopping malls and a medical centre. With access to a hospitality ecosystem encompassing more than 1,500 hotel rooms across Sunway Resort Hotel, Sunway Pyramid Hotel and Sunway Lagoon Hotel, students can connect classroom learning with the realities of a dynamic hospitality and tourism environment. This unique setting, combined with academic rigour, hands-on training, industry engagement and research, prepares future professionals and leaders for the global industry.

SHTM’s commitment to excellence is demonstrated by the achievements of its educators and students on international and regional competition stages. Its culinary educators include a World Pastry Cup 2019 champion, while its culinary students have competed at the IKA Culinary Olympics in 2020 and 2024. Hospitality educators bring professional industry certifications and coaching credentials, while students have earned gold awards in hotel and food-and-beverage categories at FHM and Culinaire competitions in 2023 and 2025. In business events, SHTM student teams achieved Asia-Pacific championship titles in 2024 and 2025 through AFECA- and ICCA-related business events challenges. Together, SHTM’s global engagement, strong graduate employability and growing academic reputation have earned it recognition among the world’s leading hospitality schools, ranked 55th globally in Hospitality and Leisure Management in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.