WINE IS
BIG

Launch the Beverage Career of Your Dreams

Dream BIG

Study at the Nexus of Wine and Beverage

It’s hard to imagine a setting more perfect for learning about wines and beverages than the Napa Valley. As a student in the CIA Wine and Beverage Graduate Certificate program (WBGC), your classrooms are the region’s celebrated vineyards, wineries, farms, and distilleries. And you’ll learn from expert, industry-savvy CIA faculty—including a Master Sommelier—as well as leaders from throughout the Northern California winegrowing region.

50,000+

alumni ready to hire and support.

Join the most influential career network in food and beverage. With the CIA on your résumé, you’ll have no shortage of mentors and connections.

2018

is the year you make the move!

You know graduate-level knowledge and networking is what you need to get ahead. Let our admissions and financial aid team help you make it happen.

Think BIG

The Experiential Curriculum That Makes All the Difference

In this 30-week program, you will develop your palate and grow your beverage expertise through interactive tastings, sensory analyses, and classroom discussion. You’ll walk the region’s vineyards and talk directly with growers, learn the business of wine and beverage management, perfect your service skills, and so much more. And you’ll experience the interplay between food and wine from the very start (this is the CIA, after all) alongside beverage topics that benefit from an understanding of food.

The Napa Valley will inform and support every aspect of your wine and beverage education, through field trips, guest lectures, ingredients and products from its farms and terroir, and more.

With more than 450 hours of focused instruction and interactive tastings in wines, spirits, beers, coffees, and other beverages, the WBGC gives you experiential knowledge you can put right to work.

In just 30 weeks, you can have the graduate-level credential and connections that will deliver career-long benefits.

WBGC graduates work as sommeliers, beverage managers, wine and spirits directors, wine consultants, retailers, writers…just about any position in beverages you can dream of!

Reach BIG

New Opportunities Are Waiting

Whether you’re already working in the beverage industry and want to advance, or you’re looking to embark on a new career or add a specialization, the CIA will prepare you for a multitude of exciting career opportunities. WBGC graduates are making their mark at leading businesses like Benchmark Wine Group, Beringer Vineyards, Chateau Montelena Winery, Frog’s Leap Winery, Matthiasson Wines, Oak Avenue Catering, Outland, Pine Ridge Vineyards, and Andrea Robinson, MS. Why not join them? Follow your dream to the CIA and apply now.

WINE IS BIG

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