Les Roches Hotel Management School
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Les Roches Hotel Management School is a private, for-profit hotel school with two locations just outside of Crans-Montana, Switzerland and Marbella, Spain. The school also has a joint venture partnership school with Jin Jiang International, Les Roches Jin Jiang International Hotel Management College, in Shanghai, China.
The schools are owned by Laureate Education, Inc.
The school originated in 1954 as Ecole Les Roches, an international institute for young people, founded by Marcel and Jean-Pierre Clivaz, later becoming the Les Roches International School. In 1979, the campus turned into Les Roches Hotel and Tourism School, with classes taught in English.
In January 1987, Les Roches was approved by the Swiss Hotel Association and the school is accredited in the United States by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges up to the Bachelor's degree. In November 2000, the School was sold in its entirety to Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. In 2004, Sylvan Learning Systems became Laureate Education, Inc.
