Students can hone their creativity and skills at a culinary school.
Attending culinary school can create a number of career opportunities for its graduates, including becoming a chef, cook, baker and food preparation worker. Culinary students can go on to open their own restaurants, and even create their own product lines. After receiving a high school diploma or general equivalency degree, future chefs who want to study in New Jersey can choose from a number of options.
Atlantic Cape Community College
Atlantic Cape Community College's Academy of Culinary Arts in May's Landing, New Jersey, offers accredited degree and certificate programs. Students looking to get a certificate can study hot foods, baking and pastry, food-service management or catering. Atlantic Cape Community College also has Careme's Restaurant, an on-site restaurant where students practice the culinary arts.
Atlantic Cape Community College
5100 Black Horse Pike
Mays Landing, NJ 08330-2699
609-343-4900
atlantic.edu
Rutgers University
One of New Jersey's most famous universities, Rutgers jointly offers a culinary program with Mercer County Community College. It also offers Bachelor's of Science degrees in food-science research, food science and management economics, and general food science. According to Rutgers University's website, more than a third of the major food companies in the U.S. have production facilities in New Jersey, and students are able to use that to their advantage and interact with the companies during their studies.
Department of Food Science
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
65 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-9611
rutgers.edu
Middlesex County College
Middlesex County College offers a culinary arts certificate program, as well as programs in hotel, restaurant and institution management, and restaurant and food-service management. Students normally complete the culinary arts certificate program in tandem with another four-year program. Middlesex County College has small class sizes and plenty of computer labs for students' use.
Middlesex County College
2600 Woodbridge Ave.
Edison, NJ 08818-3050
732-548-6000
middlesexcc.edu
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