Food Business
Limited seats available for Fall 2025. Apply now.
Master the World of Food and Beverage
CIA’s online master’s programs expand your career options, elevate your skills, and reestablish your professional goals. Earn the credentials that open doors throughout the culinary industry, and become a part of our industry-wide alumni network. With programs tailored to the needs of working professionals, CIA’s flexible master’s degree programs allow you to grow your career without putting the rest of your life on hold.
There’s no better place to immerse yourself in the universe of food business and earn a competitive advantage than CIA’s School of Graduate Studies. Here, you will learn from faculty with deep industry expertise and join CIA alumni in nearly every corner of the food world—opening businesses, developing sustainability policies, addressing health and wellness through food, launching new products, and more.
Inquire to learn more about CIA’s master’s programs—how they support your goals, what the application process looks like, and how to take the next step.
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Choose the Professional Master’s Degree That Fits Your Career Goals
Explore culinary and food business master’s programs available from the Culinary Institute of America. Get the education, insights, and experiences to grow your career through hands-on residences and integrated online academic classes for unparalleled experiential learning from world-class instructors.
Food Business
Develop your business acumen with our rigorous curriculum that pairs business education with a food focus.
Sustainable Food Systems
Prepare to address the complex social, environmental, and economic factors affecting the world’s food systems.
Wine and Beverage Management
Gain a thorough understanding of the business of wine, including marketing, distribution, and management.
Culinary Therapeutics
Discover the future of health and wellness by blending culinary arts with evidence-based nutritional science.
Culinary Arts
Designed for high potential culinary professionals, you’ll prepare to lead the next generation of gastronomy.
Discover the Benefits of CIA’s Accredited Online Master’s Degrees
Flexible Schedule
No reason to put your career on hold. Our two-year, 30-credit, primarily online program provides schedule flexibility for busy working professionals.
Immersive Residencies
In-person residencies supplement online learning with hands-on experiences, invaluable connections, and networking opportunities.
Industry Connections
Access to the 50K+ CIA alumni network—the food industry’s most influential food, beverage, and hospitality leaders and changemakers.
Career Resources
Gain from lifelong access to career resources, including job listings, and Career Fair and industry-wide networking events.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Learn more about CIA’s admissions process and how to join a community of professionals shaping the future of food. From application guidance to financial aid, everything you need to get started is here.
CIA Master’s Program Faculty and Industry Experts
The faculty instructors of CIA’s online master’s programs are among the foremost industry doers, makers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from the worlds of education, business, design, and technology.
Master’s Program Alumni Spotlights
Graduate alumni at CIA bring with them diverse backgrounds, unique perspectives, and personal experiences from all walks of life. Discover how our master’s programs create an engaging and enriching learning environment as well as accelerate their culinary and food business careers.
Master’s Degree Virtual Info Sessions
Master’s Degree Virtual Info Sessions will resume in September. To speak with someone about our master’s program, please schedule an individual appointment with someone from our Graduate Admissions team or watch our on-demand info session now.