This culinary arts management degree is all about your employability. Our approach is to encourage and promote a can-do attitude in all things hospitality. As well as practical culinary techniques, you will learn skills such as finance and accounting, people management and product innovation and development. We will also help you acquire valuable critical-thinking and problem-solving skills that are essential to a career in any sector. 

Through our patrons and sponsors, we have well-developed links with the food and hospitality sector. On this culinary arts course, you will have opportunities to gain valuable industry contact and experience. These include chances to:

• work alongside renowned industry professionals on events through UWL’s celebrity guest demonstration and speaker schedule
• gain valuable insights from leading sector providers by attending our programme of talks and workshops  
• benefit from additional off-site learning at leading establishments in London and surrounding areas through participation in industry events, visits and placement
• raise your personal profile within the industry by participating in national and international competitions.

Placement*

If you have enrolled for the BSc(Hons) Culinary Arts Management with Placement course you will be required to compile a piece of assessment which is linked to your placement and other modules in your course. See your MSGs for Service Industries Dissertation modules if you are BSc(Hons) student.  

BSc(Hons) on the placement route you will be required to undertake a 1400 hours (40 weeks) placement. As part of the UKVI guidance international BSc(Hons), you must complete 40 weeks Fulltime to reach in total 1400 hours including leave. 

Placements are found in coordination with the Placements Office at UWL. A placement coordinator and placement tutors are available to assist you with preparing for the placement as well as to monitor your placement, support you with the assessment and support you during your placement. 

This course prepares you to lead effectively in an ever-evolving sector, with the skills and confidence needed to tackle the issues the sector is facing today and into the future.

Your first position is likely to be in a junior role, but there is scope to move rapidly into a supervisory position. With a culinary arts degree you could work in:

• food production management
• product development
• food and beverage management
• education and training
• food and equipment promotion and writing
• as a private chef
• as a chartered yacht chef.