Queenstown Resort College

Queenstown Resort College (QRC) is New Zealand’s premier tourism and hospitality management college. QRC qualifications provide relevant career pathways for graduates. Programme activities are interactive and designed to ensure students are able to transfer knowledge and theory into practice. Activities include group activities, as well as individual assessment, which is peer moderated to ensure results are valid and students are assessed consistently. In general, the programmes are highly valued by the industry the programmes are targeted to. This judgement is supported by the keen interest of employers seeking graduates due to their professionalism and high standard of industry knowledge, and also by employer satisfaction with how the students perform in work placements. The key value QRC provides is connecting employers to students who have the basic industry knowledge and demonstrate an aptitude for working in hospitality or adventure tourism.