Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Diploma in Culinary Arts & Management (T18)
Temasek Polytechnic · Temasek Culinary Academy, Singapore · Singapore
- Official award
- Diploma in Culinary Arts & Management
- Duration
- 3 years
- Delivery
- On campus · Full-time
- Tuition
- Not published
Award and recognition
Three-year polytechnic diploma blending culinary arts, baking and pastry and restaurant operations with business and management skills, including a final-year internship.
- Qualification category
- Diploma
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Temasek Polytechnic
- Issued by the school
- No: awarded by another body
- On completion
- A Diploma in Culinary Arts & Management from Temasek Polytechnic (previously named Diploma in Culinary & Catering Management).
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Subject
- Culinary arts, Baking & pastry, Culinary management
- Entry level
- Beginners welcome
Verified in official recordMinistry of Education Singapore (Course Finder)Qualification listing
Reference: T18
Scope: Course listed in the MOE Course Finder as T18 at Temasek Polytechnic
Structure and practical training
- Duration
- 3 years
- Delivery
- On campusTaught at the campus.
- Teaching language
- English
- Practical kitchen hours
- 600 hours
- Note on hours
- One subject is described as an intensive 600-hour practical course on Western cooking fundamentals with baking, pastry and Asian cuisine elements.
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Internship and placement
Required internship
An internship or externship is part of the program requirements.
- Published duration
- 24 weeks, final year
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
- Prior education
- O-Level route: net ELR2B2 aggregate of 26 points or better plus minimum entry requirements (per TP page); other routes (EAE, JPAE, DAE) listed.
- Entry route
- Joint Admissions Exercise and other admissions exercises listed on the page
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Costs
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Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, 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.
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