Founded in 1973, it was the first hospitality management studies program in California and its thousand students make it the largest such school in the state.

Publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Cal Poly Pomona's electronic magazine PolyCentric have referred to the college without The as part of the name.

[12][13] In November 2010, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation awarded $2 million to The Collins College of Hospitality Management for the academic building expansion.

[16] Additional industry support has come from Carl Karcher Enterprises and Marriott Corp.[11] In December 2010, Eugene Park, son of Hae and Shina, pledged $1 million to the college's academic building expansion.

[18] Horsehill Vineyards 2009 Rosé also won a gold medal at the 71st annual Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition.

The colleges partnered with master winemaker Jon McPherson at South Coast Winery in Temecula, California, to produce and bottle the rosé for the university.

Roughly two-thirds of the 2008 harvest yielded 328 cases of Horsehill Vineyards Zinfandel Rosé, which have been sold exclusively at the Collins College's Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch.

Geyser Peak Winery made a Zinfandel from the De Ambrogio Vineyard, which was located across the street from what would become the Rancho Cucamonga Civic Center on the corner of Foothill Boulevard (old Route 66) and Haven Avenue.

[26] The Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch is operated and managed by students of The Collins College, serving both lunch and dinner, as a part of their undergraduate degree requirements.

The restaurant embodies Cal Poly Pomona's learn-by-doing tradition and is a central component to The Collins College of Hospitality Management's curriculum.

The Collins College hosts and participates in numerous outreach events to educate prospective students and high schools about the programs and opportunities it offers.

More than 150 students from Los Angeles-area high schools got an exclusive tour of LA Live venues - including Katsuya, the Staples Center, Nokia Theatre, and JW Marriott - to show them first-hand what a career in hospitality could look like.