At Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, Diploma in Culinary Management is offered as a diploma in Culinary Arts programme. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
With a focus on local Ontario food products and seasonal cooking, the diploma teaches the skills needed to create dishes and menus drawing on flavours and trends from global cuisine, blending culinary technique with team leadership and business principles. Students complete industry certifications in Smart Serve, Safe Food Handlers and CPR. For the September intake, the first year covers two semesters of theory and practical classes followed by a summer break, then a third semester of coursework leads into a fourteen-week work-integrated learning placement at the college's own restaurant and cafe or with a partner organisation. The May and January intakes instead run four consecutive semesters without a break, with the work-integrated learning placement falling in either the third or fourth semester.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-student status at 19 or older, together with Grade 12 English at the C or U level (or equivalent); applicants without that course may instead pass the Centennial English Admission Test. International and other non-OSSD applicants meet Centennial's institution-wide English Language Proficiency standard for diploma and certificate programmes: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band below 5.5, TOEFL iBT 67 (minimum 16 Reading, 23 Writing), PTE Academic 51 or higher, CAEL 60, or Duolingo 105-114. No portfolio, interview, or work-experience requirement is listed on the programme page. The programme admits in September, January, and May for both domestic and international applicants.
Application Details
Start Date:September, January and May
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
