Culinary Arts

Imagine a culinary arts school classroom where you and your progress matter. You'll study the cooking skills that are valued in the culinary industry, as well as forge the personal contacts that will guide you through your journey. What’s more, our students range widely in both age and previous professional experience. Some are recent high school or college graduates, while others are current line cooks looking to refine their skills, or professionals from industries as varied as IT, medicine, publishing and beyond. This diversity is at the core of our personalized, student-focused approach to teaching.

Every class in our culinary school program teaches specific skills. Beginning with basic ingredient identification, our culinary arts Chef-Instructors will help train your senses, guiding you through an incredible range of tastes and flavors, from herbs and condiments to vegetables and meats. Your evolution will continue through the development of culinary techniques such as knife skills, dry and moist heat cooking methods, sauce making, restaurant service simulations, pastry and baking and more. Over the course of the culinary arts campus programs, you'll have the opportunity to take classes with different Chef-Instructors, exposing you to a wide range of mentors with different areas of expertise. This, combined with our global curriculum and externship program, will help to provide you with a solid foundation to pursue a culinary career inside or outside the kitchen.

One of the things that makes ICE a top culinary arts school, is that our culinary training is grounded in classical French technique but the experience in the program is unmistakably global. Thailand, India, Japan and Italy – the techniques, ingredients and distinctive flavors of all these regions and others will be a part of your culinary arts school training. Our culinary arts campus programs are designed to take you and your creativity anywhere in the industry and abroad.

An important part of ICE's global perspective is gaining industry experience in a culinary business. After 400+ hours in the classroom, our externship program will place you in a hands-on position in the heart of the job market. Imagine 210 hours of dedicated training in a restaurant, hotel, catering kitchen or other culinary business. Our full-time staff of Career Services Advisors will help you find an industry externship placement that works for you. ICE graduates tell us they consider ICE to be a top culinary school program and that their externship was instrumental in their career, providing them with invaluable networking opportunities and connections to help kick-start their careers in culinary arts — and many ICE externships have led to full-time job offers.

Our class schedules are designed to accommodate both full-time students and working professionals. These are two more reasons why ICE ranks as a top culinary school in the nation and why students who are looking for good colleges for culinary arts turn to ICE. You decide which schedule is most convenient for you: morning, afternoon, evening or weekends (weekend schedules are available only at ICE’s NY campus). Attending culinary arts school doesn’t have to be an unattainable goal. Let us help you make it a reality.