FOOD IS YOUR LIFE
Food is your passion. You love food. Creating it. Sharing it. Planning your day around it. Connecting over it. Food is who you are. And food is The Culinary Institute of America, because we live food every day. We’ll prepare you for an amazing career in a creative profession that’s filled with opportunities—including ones you haven’t even imagined yet. Love food? The CIA is the only place for you to be. Welcome!
THE BEST FOUNDATION Mise en Place and Experiential Learning What makes a CIA education the best? It starts with mise en place, a philosophy that goes far beyond station setup and ingredient prep—it’s a way of thinking and problem solving that will prepare you for success in your career and your life. You’ll perfect your “mise” in 1,300+ kitchen and bakeshop hours that form the core of your immersive food and beverage learning experience. You’ll develop your understanding of taste and flavor, and build skills that go beyond the kitchen.
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ASSOCIATE DEGREE MAJORS Culinary Arts The kitchen is where you feel at home. Build the foundation for your culinary creativity, from cooking methods to flavor principles to butchery. You’ll learn about sustainability, wellness, responsible sourcing, world cultures and cuisines...knowledge every future-thinking food professional needs.
Baking and Pastry Arts Do you have that special combination of creativity and attention to detail? Learn the techniques, ingredient function, and design principles behind everything from puff pastry to baguettes to entremets—and then envision and create your unique versions. You’ll also learn to prepare savory fare perfect for your own café.
#ONLYATCIA Our worldwide partnerships provide students with access to the highest quality, premium ingredients— like truffles and in-house dry-aged beef. 3
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LEARNING Prepare to Lead Build on the CIA food and beverage foundation with experiences that will prepare you to lead the industry and change the world. In your upper-level courses, you’ll turn your focus to subjects like food systems, sustainability, management, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. You’ll explore concepts in the way most meaningful to you—through food. Class projects, culinary travel, visits to food and hospitality businesses...you’ll find that our experiential approach is the best way to learn.
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BACHELOR’S DEGREE MAJORS Food Business Management Success in food depends not only on inspired cooking and baking, but also your understanding of business. Whether you want to excel in a company or start one of your own, you need industry-specific knowledge in leadership, marketing, human resources, finance, and more.
Culinary Science Innovative ideas and the ability to turn out a consistently superior product are essential for cooking at the highest level or creating the next big thing in food. With a deep, technique-based understanding of your ingredients, you’ll be equipped to do more inventive and delicious things with them. That’s culinary science, the CIA major with the most kitchen hours.
Applied Food Studies Want to use your passion for food to make a difference? The world needs you. Get an in-the-field immersion in food’s connection with culture, media, sustainability, community, education, and history—and discover how to put what you learn into practice locally and globally.
Hospitality Management This next-level integrated program provides critical business-focused hospitality skills, plus the vital hands-on food and beverage experience you need to become a well-rounded hospitality leader. After all, food and beverage is the heart of the hotel, entertainment and travel experience. With 10x more food and beverage instruction than traditional hospitality programs, you’ll gain the distinct advantage to lead across all aspects of hospitality—from the business and hotel end of operations, to food and event planning. Nobody better prepares you for your hospitality future than the CIA. 5
COOL COURSES
Innovative and Unique Food connects everything. So if you think about it, a food education at the CIA is really life education. Through every course, and every hands-on project, you’ll discover new things about the world and yourself. Here are just a few of the unexpected courses CIA students take. 6
Get Out Into the Ecosystem Tap maple trees and dig in at the Teaching Garden. During Ecology of Food, you’ll explore questions like how and where food is grown, produced, marketed, and its consequences on society—be it positive, negative, or a little of both.
The Science of Deliciousness Fun with hydrocolloids and more! That’s what awaits you in Ingredient Functionality. Through inventive experiments—like making a popping mango gel with sodium alginate and calcium lactate in a fruit purée—you’ll begin to understand the power of your ingredients.
Build a Better Baguette Your challenge in Advanced Baking Principles? Transform traditional recipes for breads, desserts, and other baked goods into new versions tailored for vegan, gluten-free, and no-sugar-added diets that are just as delicious as the original.
Brew U In the Art and Science of Brewing, you’ll learn about the ingredients and techniques of brewing in The Brewery at the CIA and create beers that will be served in our restaurants. Two student brews won gold medals at the 2019 NYS Craft Beer Competition— will yours be next?
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BEST Faculty Explore big ideas, learn practical skills, and be mentored by some of the best minds in food, hospitality, and academics. CIA faculty come from all over the world, and have worked and won awards in every area of food and higher education. Ask our students what they like best about the CIA. One of the answers that comes up again and again is “the chefs and professors,” who they call “inspiring” and “amazing”—and who so clearly love what they do.
#ONLYATCIA Our faculty literally wrote the book on culinary education— The Professional Chef. Other colleges teach from it, but the experts are here.
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CAREER-BUILDING
INTERNSHIPS You’ll Get to Work Hello real world! Expand your horizons and sharpen your focus with a semester-long paid internship experience that’s part of your degree program. You’ll choose from 2,000+ CIA-approved world-class businesses in every part of the industry, many of which also recruit through CIA Career Services.
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HELLO
REAL WORLD Real Restaurants, Real Experience How’s this for “classrooms?” Award-winning on-campus restaurants where you’ll serve and cook for customers who come from all over the world just for the experience. You’ll rotate through all of the positions in the back and front of the house, and if you’re a hospitality student, you’ll analyze the action to reinforce concepts covered in class. It’s exciting, real-life learning you can only experience here. 10
#ONLYATCIA The only school with nine student-run, award-winning public restaurants in top U.S. foodie destinations.
POST ROAD BREW HOUSE • NY
SAVOR • TX
APPLE PIE BAKERY CAFÉ • NY
RISTORANTE CATERINA DE’ MEDICI • NY
THE BOCUSE RESTAURANT • NY
AMERICAN BOUNTY RESTAURANT • NY
CIA BAKERY CAFÉ • TX
GATEHOUSE • CA
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DESIGN YOUR OWN EDUCATION
We know your interests and career goals are unique. That’s why a CIA education isn’t “one size fits all.”
Concentrations A bachelor’s degree concentration lets you dive deep. In most, you’ll spend a semester in another part of the country or the world to learn about and soak up the local culture. • African Cuisine • Asian Cuisine • Italian Cuisine • Japanese Cuisine • Latin American Cuisine • Mediterranean Cuisine • Intrapreneurship • Farm-to-Table • Advanced Wine, Beverage, and Hospitality • Advanced Baking and Pastry • Beverage Production and Service
#ONLYATCIA Experience Barcelona, Spain, for a semester in a one-of-a-kind opportunity to study and learn about indigenous ingredients and regional techniques.
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Taste the World! Wherever your concentration takes you, you’ll return home with a whole new perspective. Thanks to the CIA’s unmatched global
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WITH A CULINARY TWIST Located in major culinary destinations, each of our U.S. campuses has a distinct flavor, a unique feel. Yet, at every one, you’ll be part of a diverse community of students and instructors from all over the world, united in your shared passion for food.
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CALIFORNIA NAPA VALLEY VIBES Why You’ll Love It It’s the Napa Valley! That means you’ll be surrounded by growers, vineyards, and farm-to-table restaurants, along with arts, culture, and outdoor fun. You’ll have access to the best of the San Francisco Bay Area, from Michelin-starred restaurants to Giants baseball. Join in campus-sponsored excursions that give you maximum fun at a minimal cost or check out the Outdoor Adventure Club where members climb, cave, hike, paddle, and cycle. Plus, our students say that one of the very best things about our close-knit California campus is that it feels like family. LOCATION St. Helena
STUDENTS 340+
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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES Associate (credits fully transfer to bachelor’s in New York)
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NEW YORK THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE Why You’ll Love It LOCATION Hyde Park
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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES Associate and Bachelor’s
If you’re looking for an incredible campus filled with everything an aspiring food professional could dream of, a fun college adventure, and friends from all over the globe, you just found it. Majestically overlooking the Hudson River, our beautiful 170-acre Hyde Park campus is the total college experience. Home to numerous student clubs, athletic teams and special events you won’t find anywhere else—like competitive cookoffs, chef demos, and the Run For Your Knives 5k—you’re sure to find countless opportunities involving food, friends, and fun! It’s no coincidence that our Hudson Valley location is an incubator for agritourism, farm-to-table cuisine, resorts, and craft breweries—lots of our graduates love it so much here that they never leave.
#ONLYATCIA New York students can also experience a semester at the CIA Singapore, California, or Texas as part of their bachelor’s degree concentration.
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Why You’ll Love It San Antonio is all about community, on campus and off. It’s an amazing, friendly city pulsing with Latin American-infused culture and cuisine, and our location in the heart of the Pearl District drops you squarely into the action. Attracting a unique blend of future chefs, food lovers, and established culinary leaders, our Texas campus is packed with food-focused LOCATION
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and food traditions. Connect with friends through activities like barbecue and garden clubs, Sugar Rush, Habla Fresca Lecture Series, or take part in the city’s Paella Challenge. At the CIA Texas, you’re sure to find a small and inclusive community where you’ll really get to know your instructors and make lifelong friends.
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“I want to be the best, and the CIA is the world’s premier culinary college, so it was the only choice for me.” AARON TARPLEY
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“The CIA will help me successfully set a foundation for my dreams. It has provided me with connections that I can use for my career.” ELORA DUFFETT
“For anyone with a deep love for the industry, this is home.” RIDDHI VENKATESHWARAN
“I am very appreciative of the incredible team of chefs and professors who teach at this school. I have learned so much from them—even just about life in general.” JULIA SPONDIKE
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HOSPITALITY & BEVERAGE Arash Azarbarzin ‘89 CEO, Highgate Holdings
HOSPITALITY & BEVERAGE Eddie Ledesma-Porter ’05 Chef Owner, Mays Eats, and LEAP Beverage
Join Our Innovative Alumni CIA graduates are driving transformative change in every segment of food and hospitality and in every corner of the world—just as you will. Our alumni are hugely proud of their education (they know the value of a CIA degree better than anyone), which is why they recommend their alma mater to so many students and hire so
MEDIA Kersti Bowser ’01 Owner, Gourmet Butterfly Media & Special Events
many CIA graduates.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Caroline Lynch Gador ’08 Senior Manager, Research & Innovation, Danone
ENTREPRENEUR Roy Choi ’98 Chef, Restaurateur, Author, and Food Truck Pioneer
#ONLYATCIA Join the food world’s most powerful alumni network of 50,000+ industry leaders and changemakers.
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RESTAURANT & CATERING Johnny Hernandez ’89 Founder and President, Grupo La Gloria and TRUE Flavors, Inc.
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Kayla Howey ’16 Creator, The Original Dish blog
Dan Souza ’08 Editor in Chief, Cook’s Illustrated and regular contributer, America’s Test Kitchen
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Maneet Chauhan ’00 Chef, Restaurateur, and Judge, Chopped
Camille Cogswell ’13 Owner, Walnut Family Bakery
FOOD SYSTEMS & EDUCATION Barton Seaver ’01 Sustainable Seafood Innovator and Food Policy Influencer
HOSPITALITY & BEVERAGE Christine Langelier ’12 General Manager, Okta Restaurant
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Adam Crocini ‘00 Global Head and VP of F&B, all 18 brands of Hilton
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Akanksha Arora ’15 Chef and Owner, Barkers Dozen Pet Bakery
Kevin Ashade ’08 Owner and Executive Chef, GourmEATS Catering Services
Wendy Stuart ’09 Food Advocate and Co-Founder, The Wide Net Project
Kelsey Barnard Clark ’11 Executive Chef and Owner, KBC; Winner, Top Chef
ENTREPRENEUR Bryan Graham ’08 Founder, Fruition Chocolate Works and Confectionery
FOOD SYSTEMS & EDUCATION Brandon Chrostowski ’06 Founder, President, and CEO, EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute
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Kwame Onwuachi ’13 Chef, Author, Executive Producer, Food & Wine Magazine
Evan Bollers ’14 Product Development Manager, H-E-B
HOSPITALITY & BEVERAGE Andrea Morris ’11 Beverage Director, Union Square Hospitality
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FORGE AHEAD
Build on Your Experience Whether you’re a food professional or have always dreamed of becoming one, you’re in the right place! Our student community is enriched by people just like you, who want to transform their passion for food into career growth. That’s why the CIA has degree options tailored to your experience and goals. 26
Make Your Transfer Credits Count Transfering your college credits into our bachelor’s degree completion program is easier than you think. Or, if you’re already working in food and want to advance with a CIA degree, ask about our turbo option to waive the internship requirement. Both enable you to complete your CIA degree faster—saving you time and money!
Take Your Education to the Next Level So it’s good to know that, down the road, you can build on your bachelor’s degree and increase your professional prospects with a CIA master’s degree in wine and beverage management, food business, or sustainable food systems.
Start Your Food Career Are you a military veteran looking to make the most of your GI Bill benefits? A career changer who’s finally ready to go after the future in food you’ve always dreamed of? We’ll prepare you with the degree and food industry connections you need for your next chapter.
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HELPING YOU
SUCCEED Support Teams • Our admissions counselors will help you with the application and admission process. • Enrollment managers can answer your questions about financial aid and next steps. • CIA financial planners will work with you to help make your education affordable. • CIA Cares pairs you with a success team to provide academic support when needed. • Library Learning Commons staff will assist you in mastering a skill, understanding a concept, managing your time, and more. • Residence Life staff will show you how to get the most from living on campus. • The Center for Career and Academic Advising team can help you choose courses and concentrations, secure your internship, and set the course for your career in food.
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IN YOUR FUTURE Affordability If you’re excited by all you’ve heard so far, you may be asking yourself,
“How will I pay for the CIA?” We’re going to help you make it happen. There are so many options available—just ask the more than 90 percent of current CIA students who receive financial assistance. Along with federal and state financial aid (including veterans’ benefits), the CIA has a generous program that includes grants and scholarships to help make your dream affordable.
#ONLYATCIA “The Harvard of culinary schools.” —culinary legend Julia Child
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DRIVING INDUSTRY FORWARD
Feeding Classroom Learning Local sourcing. Energy use. Sustainable agriculture. Climate change. The CIA is leading the charge to shift our industry’s thinking on, and approach to, issues that affect the future of food and our planet. These are crucial conversations taking place every day at the CIA—conversations you’ll be part of. You’ll leave the CIA prepared to make your own impact on the world, because everything we learn in our research, consulting, and partnerships goes right into your education.
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A Sampling of Our Industry Impact INSPIRING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE CIA industry leadership conferences serve as a think tank for chefs, scientists, foodservice and hospitality professionals, and corporations. Teaming with leaders like Harvard and Stanford universities, we’re helping to create a more sustainable food system—inspiring our community and driving change in today’s CIA classrooms and your future careers. EDUCATING HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS For more than 15 years, Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives, a groundbreaking initiative with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, has helped teach health care providers basic cooking, meal planning, and nutrition science to share with patients and improve health outcomes. REDEFINING THE CAFETERIA We’re busting the cafeteria stereotype! Through strategic partnerships with more than 50 organizations—from Stanford and Princeton universities to the U.S. Air Force to Google—the CIA is helping to put healthier, craveable choices front and center.
#ONLYATCIA CIA thought leadership and education principles come to life through The CIA at Copia, our conference destination center.
THE CIA AT COPIA—A FOODIE WONDERLAND
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