CIA Associate Degree Programs

Feed Your Passion and Creativity

You’re going to love our associate degree programs because you’ll be doing what you love! You’ll get creative in our kitchens and bakeshops, and learn in courses that are 100% focused on food. Discover new ingredients, techniques, flavors, and so much more. Then put it all into practice during your internship, and by preparing and serving food in our public restaurants and bakery cafés.

Choose your major, master your mise en place (French for “everything in its place”), and get ready to succeed in the food world.

Baking and Pastry Arts

Looking for a creative career with a sweet payoff? Major in baking and pastry arts. In less than two years, you’ll learn to craft high-end breads, chocolates, confections, pastries, and plated desserts.

Culinary Arts

Love to cook? Want to be a top chef or restaurateur? The culinary arts major is for you. You’ll explore global cuisines, develop creative menus, manage staff, and gain key organizational skills.
Real-World, Live-Action Classrooms
You just won’t find this many opportunities to get real in the food world anywhere else—the most on-campus, student-staffed restaurants around, and an internship at one of 2,000+ leading food businesses (that’s a lot of industry contacts!)
Have Prior Work Experience? Go Turbo!
Earn your CIA degree in as little as 15 months with this accelerated degree program option. Learn more >

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CIA Turbo Option
Want to Go Higher in Food?
Consider a CIA bachelor’s degree, built on the same hands-on core. Then, go even further with the CIA’s Food Business School, offering food-focused master’s degrees.

Already have some college credits? Check out our degree completion programs for transfer and adult students.

Bachelor’s study-abroad opportunities let you add travel, culture and world cuisines to your college experience.

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Feed Your Passion and Creativity