Undergraduate · Hospitality & Tourism
Bachelor of Culinary Management
William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
This degree sits on top of Angliss's core reputation: the institute has trained generations of Melbourne's professional chefs, and its commercial kitchens run as genuine working production and training spaces rather than teaching-only mockups, supplying the institute's own training restaurant and bakery outlets that serve the public. Culinary Management students aren't just cooking in class; they're working alongside vocational chef apprentices and trainees in kitchens that operate under real commercial kitchen conditions and food safety obligations.
The degree is built for students aiming at kitchen leadership and food business management roles rather than a pure culinary arts (hands-on cooking) qualification. It layers business management, food cost control, and menu engineering on top of solid practical culinary skills, positioning graduates for head chef, food and beverage manager, or hospitality business owner pathways rather than line-cook roles. Angliss's placement network into Melbourne's restaurant, hotel, and catering scene (a city with a genuinely dense and competitive food industry) gives students access to kitchens ranging from high-volume hotel operations to smaller chef-driven restaurants.
Because Angliss's culinary teaching culture is built by working chefs as much as academics, expect assessment that includes live food production under time pressure and real cost-control exercises, not only written business case assignments.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Culinary Fundamentals and Kitchen Operations, Food Safety and Hygiene, Introduction to Menu Planning, Hospitality Business Fundamentals, kitchen placement (short block)
- Year 2: Advanced Culinary Techniques, Food and Beverage Cost Control, Menu Engineering, Kitchen Team Leadership, extended kitchen/restaurant placement
- Year 3: Culinary Business Management, Supply Chain and Procurement for Food Service, Sustainable and Ethical Food Practices, Capstone Culinary Business Project, final industry placement
- Practical training delivered in William Angliss's working commercial kitchens and training restaurant
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 or equivalent; prior culinary certificate preferred