Culinary program, affiliated to the Vocational School, provides 2-year associate degree education. The language of education is Turkish.
The culinary program aims to train the best young executive chefs of the kitchens, equipped with professional knowledge and skills, who can interpret and evaluate data using the basic knowledge and skills they have acquired in the field, and who have entrepreneurial characteristics.
During the two-year associate degree program, food and beverage management, nutrition principles, food safety and hygiene, food preparation, cooking, storage, presentation techniques, local cuisines and world cuisines, which teach all the subtleties of culinary art from the most basic to advanced levels, are theoretical and applied. are offered as lessons. In addition to this, foreign language education is provided so that they can compete in the international arena, communicate with their colleagues from different countries, and entrepreneurship training that encourages them to establish their own businesses.
Those who want to study in the culinary program, see cooking as a professional profession and accept it as a career, are interested in food-related issues, have a developed sense of taste and smell, are clean, meticulous, careful, responsible, inclined to teamwork, have the ability to plan and implement a job, They must be quick-witted and able-bodied people. Creativity is a quality that increases success in the profession.
Score Type
YGS 4
4-Year Departments That Can Be Passed With Vertical Transfer
Family and Consumer Sciences
Nutrition and Dietetics
Gastronomy
Culinary Arts and Management
Title
Chef
Chef
Working places
Hotels
tourist facilities
Catering companies
Chain restaurants
Pastry industry
Food and beverage businesses
Hospitality industry
food factories
Institutions providing culinary education
Kitchens of private or public institutions
Last updated: 26 October 2026