Our aim is to accept Turkish and World cuisines as the humanitiy's heritage, examine them at academic level, and in particular, raise Turkish cuisine culture internationally.
To educate qualified gastronomy experts who have Gelişim-based background, see evolution and development as an absolute part of the life, act as solution-oriented thinker, team player and leader, approach to the gastronomy scientifcally and philosophically, are respectful to the society and enviroment, and have creativity and intellectual thinking.
Graduates of Gastronomy Department have opportunities to work every organisation about eating and drinking. Mainly, they can have positions like specialist, director, chef, assistant chef, chef de part, pastry chef at five stars hotel kitchens, food and beverage establishments, office kitchens, cruises, catering businesses etc. Also, they have possibles like being author, participating to media programs, writing blogs and join academic world.
Gastronomy has become an area that continues to be popular with rising and changing trends today. The developing gastronomy sector in Turkey and in the world enables an increase in the number of businesses and the diversification of cuisines and concepts. Therefore, the demand for the Gastronomy and Culinary Arts department, which is still being renewed and developing, will continue to increase day by day.
It can be a suitable choice for those who are interested in gastronomy, art, developing technology and sustainable production methods, who want to specialize in applied culinary education, who want to have competencies in food safety, who want to get to know, learn and apply Turkish and world culinary cultures throughout the food and beverage business.
Our graduates can work for public and private corporations, which are active in all food and beverage services. Mostly, they are employed in the culinaries of all 5-star hotels, food and beverage facilities, cruises, catering firmas as gastronomy expert, chef, vice-chef, unit chef, including book writer, journals, broadcasting companies, media, web-blogger and academic.
Gastronomy department accepts students in undergraduate transfer within quotas in the direction of "Regulations Regarding Transition Between Bilingual and Bachelor Level Programs in Higher Education Institutions, Credit Transfer of Double Major, Minor and Minor Institutions".
All students who want to pass the Vertical Transfer to the Gastronomy Department are placed by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) when they get enough points from the Vertical Transition Examination. Students who fulfill all the requirements are thus entitled to four years of undergraduate education at our school. In addition, the VTS(DGS) students in Istanbul Gelişim University will have a chance to read 50% scholarship if their pre-license student VTS(DGS) earns their paid quota.