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Career Gran Chef Diploma

For people who want to become a professional chef with a global vision of restaurant kitchens, businesses and be specialists in their sector

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Introduction to our professional chef career

Any school can teach you to be a chef

But here you will learn how to tackle the gastronomic challenges of the 21st century

The gastronomic sector demands increasingly qualified professionals, not only those who have mastered cooking techniques, but also those with lateral skills such as leadership, decision making, critical thinking, an awareness of responsibility and sustainability, efficient communication and a creative attitude. In short, people who can solve problems and find opportunities in the world of gastronomy.


Our students choose the chef career for many reasons, whether they are starting out in their culinary career, retraining after years in the restaurant business, or changing profession to become a chef or entrepreneur. They come from all over the world to undergo a transformation that allows them to stand out in the market.


The Gran chef diploma offers disruptive training in the gastronomic sector, designed to prepare, train and transform students into all-round chefs. Our pedagogical model is centered around creativity and innovation, two driving forces that help us keep ahead of the market and find the best solutions.


This professional chef's training combines four learning and developmental stages to transform you into a 360° chef

  1. Training to be a chef with the PCAC - Haute Cuisine Chef Diploma
  2. Specializing as a chef by choosing from one of our four postgraduate courses: PEC·H - Integrative & Healthy Cooking, PEC·T - Advanced Culinary Techniques or PEC·D1 - Professional Pastry Course.
  3. Develop your most strategic skills by choosing one of our management specializations: ECD - Executive Chef Diploma or DCS - Design, Creation and Strategy of Restaurant Business.
  4. Continuing your training with a six-month internship chosen to suit each student's abilities and preferences.

Two years of cultural immersion in the city of Barcelona. Study to become a chef amidst the international atmosphere that the CIB is so well known for, which transforms you and prepares you to become a chef with a global vision of the kitchen, of business and as a specialist in your sector.

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Learning objectives

Become a chef with a global vision

How you will learn to become a professional chef

2,150 hours designed to transform

every day of your learning into a show

We do not teach you recipes, that would be teaching you to copy

Here we teach you how to create, innovate and lead gastronomy in the 21st century

Content

CIB methodology

International internships where
you can continue learning with the CIB

You’ll spend six months practicing everything you have learned while you continue your training in one of the many national and international restaurants with which the CIB has a collaboration agreement. These agreements adhere to our educational quality criteria and we monitor your progress as you continue on your journey to becoming a chef.

Memorable experiences to complement
your professional chef’s training

We are constantly creating dozens of unique experiences for each call.

Who is the gran chef diploma for?

For future chefs who want
to transform the gastronomic future and their own

Who chooses our Gran chef diploma?

Entrepreneurs from all over the world
who want to revolutionize the gastronomic sector

The CIB is for you if...

YOU BELIEVE THAT

  • Barcelona is a leading city in international gastronomic innovation

  • Education today does not line up with 21st century reality

  • Education should allow for a positive work-life balance

  • Education is an investment in your future

  • Current culinary training is outdated

  • Education should be international

YOUR GOAL IS

  • To take your career to the next level

  • To acquire the best education

  • To stand out from the crowd

  • To start your own business

  • To change your career

YOU ARE

  • An entrepreneur

  • Passionate

  • Defiant

  • Creative

Opinions on the professional chef career

The CIBers, our students, talk

Prices and upcoming calls

Your time is now

Next admission call

May 2024

from € 35,658

LAST PLACES

Upcoming admission calls

September 2024

from € 35,658

LIMITED PLACES

January 2025

from € 35,658

OPEN CALL

What the price includes

Absolutely everything

Benefits of being a CIBerSon

The CIB is just the beginning

Cibers, students of the Culinary Institute of Barcelona cooking.

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CIBers

Being a CIBer means being ready for tomorrow. They are united by this forward-thinking attitude and their goal of impacting the future by enhancing their surroundings.

  • Job opportunities

    CIB alumni have access to our job bank called "I want a CIBer". The CIB is a guarantee of talent for restaurants, hotels and food companies.

  • Entrepreneurship

    We nurture the talent that comes from our classrooms. We are surrounded by great professionals who will know how to accompany you in the initial stages of your projects.

  • Events

    The CIB organizes and hosts many events, and you, as a student or alumnus, will always be more than welcome.

  • Networking

    When you finish your course, besides the knowledge you will have acquired, you’ll also have gained countless contacts of talented students from across the world, as well as your teachers. It will be up to you to make the most of them.

  • The next generation of teachers

    We keep an eye out for talent and nurture that which emerges from our classrooms. Sometimes we have the honor of incorporating this talent into our team.

  • Your continuous education

    CIBers will always have privileged access to our continuous education programs under the best conditions, including our postgraduate programs.

  • Use of the facilities

    The CIB will be available for you to accelerate your ideas, give your presentations or propose an activity whenever you need it.

Potential career paths for chefs

For whatever your future will be

Here we teach you how to stand out

Careers:

  • Chef

  • Head of innovation projects (R+D)

  • Co-owning in the culinary industry

  • Head of gastronomy in the food production and restaurant industries

  • Head of development for new projects

  • Gastronomic consultant

  • Restaurant director

  • Restaurant manager

  • Executive chef of any international restaurant and hotel chain

  • Food and Beverage (F&B)

  • Any departure from our culinary or managerial specializations

Your competitive edge:

  • You will have gained an in-depth understanding of products, unlike in other schools.

  • You will have developed cognitive and leadership skills allowing you to lead a world-class culinary team.

  • You will have the preparation to successfully join any multidisciplinary and international culinary team.

  • Your 360º vision of gastronomy, the culinary world, its products, technology and in all contexts.

  • You will have developed cognitive skills that will help you stand out with your team, your customers and suppliers.

  • You will be able to create, innovate and achieve your objectives faster than the rest.

  • You will have an advantage in restaurants or communities where the specialty you have chosen has influence.

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How do I submit my application to the CIB?

Our admissions team will walk you through each of these simple steps

  • Step 1

    Fill in the form

    The first step is as simple as filling out the contact form for one of our advisors to contact you.

  • Step 2

    Hear from one of our Advisors

    We will assign you a personal advisor who will call you as soon as possible and will guide and support you throughout the process to answer all your questions.

  • Step 3

    Submit your admission form

    It is time to complete the admission form. This step is crucial to successfully reaching the next stage of the application process.

  • Step 4

    Pass the evaluation interview

    If your admission form impressed us, you will move on to the interview phase with the Admissions Committee. This online interview will be set at a specific time depending on availability.

  • Step 5

    Get accepted into the CIB

    If you pass our evaluation interview, our Admissions Committee will send you an email with the exciting news that you have been accepted into the Culinary Institute of Barcelona.

  • Step 6

    Complete your enrollment

    You will have to reserve your place the same week you receive the acceptance email, and pay the rest of the registration fee within 15 days (30% of the total amount of the course you have chosen).