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School Website Length to Graduate: 24 Weeks Location: IL-Chicago Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $21,500

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The French Pastry School at City Colleges of Chicago strives to offer the most excellent, innovative, and effective education in the pastry, baking, and confectionery arts internationally.

Instructed by some of the best pastry artisans in the world, our students receive intensive hands-on learning, using the finest ingredients and equipment, in order to be optimally prepared to pursue a career in pastry. Whether in one of our full-time certificate programs or a short-term Continuing Education course, students are personally mentored by master chefs whose goal is to transmit their passion, knowledge, and commitment to their students to continually elevate the art of pastry. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 2 years Location: CA-Anaheim Students per Class: 21-30 Tuition to Graduate: $11,400

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Cypress College’s state of the art kitchen and learning facility, located at the NOCCCD Anaheim Campus, is the perfect venue for students to engage in a hands-on environment to prepare themselves to become leaders in the hospitality and culinary industry.

Dedicated culinarians and hospitality professionals guide their students through the Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary Arts programs. Associate of Science Degrees and Certificates in Hotel Management, Food Service Management and Culinary Arts prepare students for not only a challenging career, but also an exciting lifestyle. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 50 Weeks Location: VA-Falls Church, VA-Woodbridge Students per Class: 1-10 Tuition to Graduate: $21,300

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Stratford University offers both an Advanced Culinary Arts Professional Diploma program. In the diploma program, students learn the skills necessary to start a career in the culinary field. The diploma program requires students to complete 60 credits, which usually takes about 50 weeks.

Courses include culinary theory, cooking techniques, sauces, soups, and stocks, entrée preparation, baking, pastry arts, dining room service, hospitality, nutrition, and menu planning.

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Stratford University offers its Culinary Arts, Baking and Pastry, Hotel Management, and Hospitality Management students classrooms and great lab spaces. Students have access to spacious, modern, professional kitchens. The Chef’s Table is an on-campus restaurant that offers fine dining to the community, which also gives students more real-world experience. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 60 Weeks Location: TX-Houston Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $44,000

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The Associate Degree in Applied Sciences in Culinary Arts prepares students for entry-level to mid-level food services management positions in the hotel, restaurant, and hospitality industry.

Typically, program graduates would take positions as sous chefs, leading to positions as executive sous chefs and chef de cuisine in reputable hotels, restaurants, country clubs, and caterers. Positions in institutional food services in schools, hospitals, and commercial establishments are also available to them. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 18 Months Location: TX-Dallas Students per Class: 21-30 Tuition to Graduate: $30,900

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Our 18-month Culinary Arts program is designed to teach the fundamental elements needed to prepare you for entry-level positions in various types of culinary facilities. From food preparation techniques to basic and advanced culinary skills, the curriculum covers a wide range of culinary concepts.

Some of the topics include food service nutrition, kitchen essentials, culinary operations, foundations of cooking, techniques and skills of a garde manger, and more.  Students enjoy the in-house training they receive in our modern, commercial kitchen filled with professional culinary tools and equipment. At the same time, you receive professional instruction from chefs who provide personal attention. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 9 Months Location: TX-Carrolton, TX-Ft Worth

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The prestigious culinary arts program at Aims Academy blends classical French cuisine with American in a nine month culinary specific program.  Aims Academy offers its students a practical hands-on approach to innovative methods and classical culinary techniques. The school’s acclaimed faculty of executive chefs offers over 100 years of hospitality industry experience.  The training at Aims Academy School of Culinary Arts covers the diverse areas of culinary arts including knife skills, fabrication, food service management, practical baking and pastries, food service production, and a directed internship at an area hotel or restaurant. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 21 Months Location: PA-Lancaster Students per Class: 21-30 Tuition to Graduate: $35,000

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The Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management program culminates in an Associate of Specialized Business degree.  Students must complete 101 credits over 21 months.  This major prepares students to work in fine restaurants, country clubs, resorts, hotels, restaurant chains, and for catering services by teaching them how to prepare and present various types of foods, as well as how to work at various positions within the kitchen.

Courses include sanitation and food safety, food preparation, food service math, food and beverage management, culinary techniques, baking, regional cooking, nutrition, menu planning, professional cooking for restaurants and wine and bar management.  In addition, students take business, communication, computer, and professional development classes. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 15-20 Months Location: PA-Harrisburg Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $30,000

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This program is designed to provide the student with the skills and knowledge necessary to assume an entry-level position in the culinary arts field as sous chefs, garde mangers, first cooks, line cooks, or kitchen managers. An emphasis on culinary fundamentals of technique and production, ingredient exploration, preparation and presentation combined with skills in menu design, planning, health and safety as well as management and financial skills provide a rounded curriculum for preparing students for a range of culinary careers.

Culinary Arts is a rapidly growing field. The training received at the Keystone Technical Institute offers students a wide arrange of knowledge and skills to enable them to become valuable members of the food service community. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 29 Weeks Location: NY-Bronx, NY-New Rochelle, NY-St Lucia Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $5,472

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The Culinary Arts program is taught by Chef instructors with years of experience in what is perhaps the most state-of-the-art culinary instructional facility in Metropolitan New York. The four new kitchen labs on the college’s New Rochelle campus include two à la carte, one banquet, and one baking and pastry kitchen outfitted with Jade commercial ranges, induction cook tops, and combination-oven/steamers that allow chefs to steam, poach, roast, broil, bake and “rethermalize” food simultaneously

Instruction prepares students for the workplace by covering cooking and baking techniques as well as industry concerns such as how food is grown and processed, nutrition, and food handling and safety. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 18 Months Location: VA-Norfolk Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $21,300

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The Culinary Institute offers an Associate of Applied Science in Culinary Science.  It is a standards-based curriculum designed to help you master the foundational skills necessary for a career as a culinary professional.

They utilize a European model that combines classroom and laboratory learning with real-world experience in the community. Classes are kept small so that students get individual attention and mentoring from instructors

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Flexible scheduling allows you to work while taking classes.  Classes are available on day, evening or weekend schedules, and some are available online.  Paid externships are a vital part of the program and allow you to “earn while you learn.” Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 18 Months Location: VT-Montpelier Students per Class: 1-10 Tuition to Graduate: $103,653

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The Culinary Arts program at New England Culinary Institute combines the old world tradition of European apprenticeship with the American holistic approach to food preparation and entrepreneurship. On the very first day of class, you’ll be working alongside Chef Instructors to learn the techniques necessary for mastery of all culinary endeavors. Small, intimate learning environments translate to personal attention that you simply won’t find at any other culinary school.

You’ll gain confidence as well as skill from working in the real world atmosphere of our restaurants, bakeries, and resort hotel. And to support this hands-on learning, you’ll be engaged in a curriculum designed to give you a well rounded education that spans applied science, critical and creative thinking, personal and professional development and more. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 18 Months Location: PA-Philadelphia Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $36,900

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You will be immersed in classes featuring the techniques of master chefs to learn the skills needed to participate in the challenging internships as part of your program. You will start with the basics and build a foundation in the latest cooking techniques and move on to discover the world of international cuisine.

Part of your culinary education will include recipe development, menu planning, kitchen management, wine selection and dining room service. And one of the great features of going to school at the Restaurant School is the weeklong, tuition-paid gastronomic Tour of France where you will explore great dining and have the opportunity to study with international professionals. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 34 Weeks Location: OR-Portland Students per Class: 21-30 Tuition to Graduate: $29,505

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Our culinary students are in the kitchen every single day developing the essential “real world” skills and proper technique that will lead to a successful career. From the basics of identifying products, determining flavor profiles and developing knife skills, to practicing the professional cooking methodology for seafood, meats, starches, vegetables and sauces, the culinary arts program is designed to teach students how cooking works.

As the program progresses, we turn up the heat and the curriculum moves into the nuance of spice, advanced sauces, wild game, world cuisine and culinary artistry, all punctuated by a month spent on the front line of our restaurant in preparation for your externship and career. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 20 Months Location: OH-Columbus, PA-Pittsburgh Students per Class: 21-30

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From the simplest ingredients, delicious meals can be created. But, it takes someone who can appreciate taste, texture, and color to develop mouth-watering meals that delight both the eye and the taste buds from those ingredients.

The Columbus Culinary Institute at Bradford School, located in Columbus, OH, offers you the chance to learn how to cook—we mean really cook. Learn from professional chefs who will teach you the skills to help you create your own menu of cuisines infused with your unique flavor. Read More...

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The Italian Culinary Academy provides a rare opportunity to set out on a once-in-a-lifetime culinary odyssey that begins in New York City and whisks you to Parma, Italy, a city unmatched for culinary tradition. We call this intensive training in food, culture and language The Italian Culinary Experience and it is truly that. It is the most comprehensive, authentic course offered today for aspiring Italian cooks like you. Of course, you can also study entirely in New York City at your own pace and take your inspiration from distinguished Chef-Instructors and some of the finest Italian restaurants — with Essentials of Italian Cooking. Read More...