If you want to learn culinary skills quickly to start or enhance your career, Atlanta Technical College offers technical certificates in culinary nutrition assistant, culinary nutrition manager, and culinary safety & sanitation, as well as a diploma in culinary arts. If you'd rather take the time to get a degree, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts offers an associate degree in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts, while The Art Institute of Atlanta offers an associate degree in culinary arts accredited by the American Culinary Federation (ACF), who award all graduates of the program Certified Culinarian (CC) or Certified Pastry Culinarian (CPC) status. If you're looking for a Top-25-ranked hospitality education, Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality of Georgia State University grants certificates, bachelor's degrees, and MBAs in hospitality administration.
You don't have to look very hard to find internships and externships in Atlanta, even though they aren't widely advertised online; the area has a large number of hotels and over 8,000 restaurants.
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Despite having an overabundance of roadways with some variation of the name Peachtree Street, food in Atlanta transcends peaches and pecans, and the city's southern hospitality isn't limited to nondescript street-corner chain motels. Around almost every corner, you'll find somewhere to eat or stay that makes you appreciate Atlanta's true variety, not to mention what a great place it is to study and work in those specialties.
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