College Certificate in Professional Cheese Making

A one year college certificate in artisanal cheese production, covering milk chemistry, culture and coagulation, ripening and affinage, sensory evaluation, food safety and small scale dairy operation.

Professional cheese making is a genuinely unusual credential and Conestoga is among very few institutions teaching it at this level, which makes it appealing for the wrong reasons if immigration is your aim.

College Certificate in Professional Cheese Making is taught at Conestoga College, a public Ontario college. Read this carefully: the professional cheese making certificate sits below degree level, so a post-graduation work permit depends on it appearing on the IRCC eligible field of study list, and hospitality, culinary and event subjects generally do not appear on it. Treat the professional cheese making certificate as carrying NO work permit unless Conestoga confirms its CIP code is eligible in writing. Ontario additionally requires a provincial attestation letter before any study permit application for the professional cheese making certificate.

Applicants to College Certificate in Professional Cheese Making need Grade 12 or equivalent with a minimum of 50 percent. The English requirement is IELTS 6.0 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the professional cheese making certificate is recorded at CAD 14,588. Conestoga charges a CAD 100 application fee, and no scholarship is recorded against the professional cheese making certificate. The professional cheese making certificate lists three entry windows across the annual intake cycle. Apply Study Visa manages your the professional cheese making certificate application, the deposit, the offer, the attestation letter and the Canadian study permit as one process.