Certificate in Professional Cooking
If you are interested in pursuing a career in the kitchen, NECI's Certificate in Professional Cooking allows you to begin on a professional path as a prep, line or banquet cook. The Certificate in Professional Cooking is designed for a specific audience which is focused on one of the following:
- Job re-training from a related or un-related career, building a core of foundational skills that will allow the individual to enter a food service establishment and begin the process of pursuing a progressive career track.
- Current food service workers interested in validating those foundational skills in a controlled environment to the betterment of their continued pursuit of a career in food.
- Testing the choice of career in a short, intensive program prior to considering a full degree program in the culinary field.
Our condensed program will give you the foundation to develop your job skills in a highly competitive marketplace. NECI’s Certificate in Professional Cooking program offers:
- Hands-on experience in a live-production, non-commercial kitchen.
- 15 weeks of on-campus residency and a 15-week, 450-hour internship.
- A stepping stone to further education, such as NECI’s Associate of Occupational Studies in Culinary Arts degree.
- Three enrollments throughout the year – April, July, and October.
Questions?
Call toll-free 877-223-6324 and ask to speak with an admissions representative or email us at: admissionsREMOVETHISBEFORESENDING@neci.edu.
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