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Earn a Culinary Arts Certificate

PROGRAMS

14 Weeks (Daytime)_2023

26 Weeks (Evening/Sat) _2023

Start Date: June 19, 2023

End Date: September 15, 2023

IN-PERSON

Full-Time

MONDAY - FRIDAY

9AM - 5PM

OFF WEEK: July 3-7

OFF WEEK: August 14-18

26 Weeks (Evening/Sat) _2023

Start Date: September 4, 2023

End Date: March 1, 2024

IN-PERSON

Part-Time

MONDAY - THURSDAY 6PM - 9:30PM

SATURDAY 9AM-2PM

OFF WEEK: November 22-26

OFF WEEKS: December 25 - January 5

OFF WEEKS: February 13 - 17

Culinary Arts Certificate

Metropolitan Culinary Arts Institute (MCAI), is a private postsecondary school that offers a Certificate in Culinary Arts by the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV). We are located in Arlington, Virginia.

Our culinary training consists of brigade training, cooking fundamentals, multi-cultural recipes, French cuisine, baking & pastry, business P&L, restaurant BOH operations, culinary inventory and culinary math. Students are prepared to become a junior sous cook.

Scheduled programs are:

14 week daytime, Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

26 week evening Monday - Thursday 6:00pm - 9:30pm and Saturday 8am-2pm.

Our program was put under a microscope by the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV). SCHEV protects you, the student, and gives you a voice if you have any issues with MCAI. It also makes sure that our refund policy is locked tight and the same for each person. If any issues arise you are protected.

Metropolitan Culinary Arts Institute strives to take a modern gastronomic approach to culinary education.

We are open to anyone looking to pave a new career path.

During each class you learn every dish, not just part of the dish that is assigned. Sounds like common sense right? I mean this is what you think you are paying for when you attend culinary school, but at all major culinary schools you learn the French way, which means you could walk out of culinary school not knowing how to make hollandaise sauce because it was assigned to someone else. WE DO NOT DO THIS. If it's on our curriculum, you will learn how to do it. There is no "luck of the draw" learning. This is just one of the ways MCAI is different.

The second differentiator is timing--a short comprehensive program will get you working in the industry faster, or starting your business sooner. It's smarter education not harder.

The third differentiator is that our tuition is affordable, AND NOW YOU CAN GET FINANCING.

With the 14 or 26 week programs we offer, we aim to educate our students so that they can reach their creative goals, appreciate the true meaning of hospitality, understand the business complexities of food, wine, spirits and service, and compete for a place on the line.

MCAI achieves this by:

+ Small class sizes to ensure personal instruction
+ Flexible instruction offering daytime and evening classes.
+ Certificate of Culinary Arts
+ Teaching with modern gastronomic techniques, tools and ingredients
+ National Restaurant Association Textbooks for study and practice
+ Giving students a realistic expectation of life after graduation

+ Job Placement
+ Continuous development through student, faculty, and staff feedback

We changed our name from Cookology21 because it was too close to our recreational school's name, Cookology, and people were getting it confused.

Who is right for this program?

Have you ever dreamed about opening a food service business? This program is for the doers not the dreamers. It's a program designed to kick start your food service ideas, candy shop, cupcakery, or if you have a desire to become a personal chef to the stars. The sky is the limit.

Chefs & Cooks

Want to make your education complete? Longing to go to culinary school but can't afford it or find the time? We've got you covered.

Have you always wanted to go to culinary school?

Want to change professions? Are you looking to start a catering company or small food service company? Or maybe just want to have the satisfaction of a culinary education? Wherever you are, start right here!

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Cookology Recreational Culinary School

Our recreational school has been in business for 12 years. We are in two Ballston Quarter but temporarily closed due to C-19. We are offering virtual classes for adults & kids via our new website

www.cookology.live

What Does SCHEV Mean?

Cookology Recreational Culinary School

What Does SCHEV Mean?

The goal of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV), is "to advocate and promote the development and operation of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia...Read More.

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