Certificate · Initial professional preparation
Culinary Arts Program
Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts · PICA Vancouver, Vancouver · Canada
- Official award
- Certificate
- Duration
- 6 months full-time
- Delivery
- On campus · Full-time
- Tuition
- CAD 20,800see costs below
Award and recognition
Professional kitchen basics, food safety, knife skills, stocks and sauces, butchery, seafood, plant-based cooking, pastry and bread, plating, menu costing and food and beverage management.
- Qualification category
- Certificate
- Award status
- Provider-issued awardIssued by the training provider itself. Check separately whether any authority or employer recognises it.
- Awarding body
- Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts
- Issued by the school
- Yes: the provider issues this award itself
- On completion
- A PICA Culinary Arts certificate.
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Subject
- Culinary arts
- Entry level
- Beginners welcome
No recognition record is attached to this program. See the school’s recognition section.
Structure and practical training
- Duration
- 6 months full-time
- Delivery
- On campusTaught at the campus.
- Teaching language
- English
- Published teaching hours
- 840 hours
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Internship and placement
Placement assistance
The school helps students look for a placement. This is not a guaranteed placement.
No placement is guaranteed unless the school states so. Restaurant names or logos on a school’s site do not prove a current training partnership.
Admissions
- Language requirements
- All applicants must read, write, and communicate in English.
- Intakes
- 4 January, 5 April, 5 July, 28 September (years not stated on page)
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Costs
Original currency is authoritative. Tuition, mandatory extras and accommodation are shown separately and never converted or added together for you.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition, domesticTuition · mandatory | CAD 20,800for the whole program | Domestic students | 16 October 2026SourceSource quote partly matched; being reviewed. |
| Tuition, internationalTuition · mandatory | CAD 25,800for the whole program | International students | 16 October 2026SourceSource quote partly matched; being reviewed. |
| Application fee, internationalApplication fee · mandatory | CAD 550one-time | International students | 16 October 2026SourceSource quote partly matched; being reviewed. |
| Application fee, domesticApplication fee · mandatory | CAD 150one-time | Domestic students | 16 October 2026SourceSource quote partly matched; being reviewed. |
No mandatory extras (uniform, knife kit, ingredients, equipment, examination fees) are published for this program. Ask the school what is not included in the tuition.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: funding.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. How verification works.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)