Culinard is a culinary

Culinary art

Culinary art is the art of preparing and cooking foods. The word "culinary" is defined as something related to, or connected with, cooking. A culinarion is a person working in the culinary arts. A culinarian working in restaurants is commonly known as a cook or a chef. Culinary artists are...

 school owned by Education Corporation of America. It was opened in 2000 as part of the Birmingham, Alabama branch of Virginia College

Virginia College

Virginia College is a non Regionally Accredited chain of private for-profit post-secondary institutions located primarily in the Southeastern United States. It is a Proprietary college which, in comparison to traditional colleges or universities, offers classes related to specific professions...

. The second campus was opened with the establishment of the Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

 branch of Virginia College in 2009. A third campus was placed in the Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

 branch of Virginia College.

Culinard offers a general Culinary Arts Diploma and a Pastry Arts Diploma. An online Culinary Arts Associate Degree is also available if certain criteria are met e.g. having already had formal training in culinary skills at a post-secondary level.

Accreditation

Culinard is a senior college

Upper division college

An upper division college is a type of educational institution that traces its roots to educational ideas put forward in the late 19th and early 20th century. They were developed primarily in the United States during the 1960s in response to the growing number of community college students seeking...

 accredited by the ACICS

Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools is a non-profit education corporation recognized by both the United States Secretary of Education and Council for Higher Education Accreditation as an independent and autonomous national accrediting body that accredits institutions of...

 and its programs are accredited by the American Culinary Federation

American Culinary Federation

The American Culinary Federation was established in 1929 and is the largest professional chefs' organization in North America.ACF, which was the progeny of the combined visions of three chefs' associations in New York, comprises more than 22,000 members in 230 chapters across the United States,...

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