Institut Paul Bocuse (IPB) a leading Hospitality School founded in 1990 in France. Institut Paul Bocuse with over 1,000 students, from 55 nationalities offers diverse study paths in courses in Hospitality, Food Service & Culinary Management. From undergraduate through to doctoral level, students on our courses benefit from an innovative teaching approach recognised by the 2017 Worldwide Hospitality Awards. Students can choose to enrol to programmes in English or French.

The Institute focuses on a highly personalised and individual learning approach with  relevant curriculum and teaching methods. It offers a unique blend of Hospitality tradition and connected modernity with worldwide industry and academic partnerships, up-to-date facilities and well-equipped practical labs. We’ve built our international development strategy upon an educational hub created in partnership with the best schools and universities in the world and our network of several thousand alumni located in more than 80 countries across the globe. IPB has developed a unique higher education, research, executive education and career-retraining ecosystem.

Institut Paul Bocuse is the first-ever Hospitality and Food Service  private Higher Education Institution to be fully certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and by the Ministry of Labour, France. Our Institute is also a member of the elite Conférence des Formations d’Excellence du Tourisme (CFET). Our Centre for Food and Hospitality Research (CDR) plays a major role in identifying future practices in the field of hospitality, food service and culinary arts management. Unique among the major international hospitality management schools, it focuses on studying the relationship between humans and food according to three main complementary themes: health/wellness – taste/pleasure – economics/management.