Editor’s Note: Read more about brewing schools in the September 2016 issue of All About Beer Magazine.
ALABAMA
Auburn
Auburn offers a one-year Graduate Certificate in Brewing Science and Operations in partnership with Oskar Blues Brewery and assorted Alabama breweries.
CALIFORNIA
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona
Cal Poly Pomona offers both a short, four-week course on beer culture and certificate programs in all-grain brewing.
San Diego
This university offers one-year and 1.5-year certificates in the Business of Craft Beer.
University of California, Davis
Davis
This flagship institute of brewing education has programs that range from a 10-week Professional Brewers Certificate to an 18-week Master Brewers Program, undergraduate malting and brewing courses, and graduate-level degrees in brewing.
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla
The part-time brewing certificate program at UC San Diego can be completed in 18-24 months and takes place on evenings and weekends.
COLORADO
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver
Metropolitan State University offers four-year degrees in Brewery Operations and Brewpub Operations, as well as a Brewing Science minor and certificate.
Denver
Regis University’s 12-month, part-time Certificate in Applied Craft Brewing program is taught in the evenings and spans topics from the biology to the business of brewing.
ILLINOIS
Siebel Institute of Technology
Chicago
With roots tracing to 1868, Siebel offered the first formal brewing education in the United States. Today students can enroll in several certificate programs, including the Master Brewer Program.
KENTUCKY
Bowling Green
Western Kentucky University offers both graduate and undergraduate certificates in Brewing and Distilling Arts & Sciences in concordance with relative fields of study.
MICHIGAN
Mount Pleasant
The one-year fermentation sciences program requires students to intern for a minimum of 200 hours at a brewery.
Livonia
This 24-credit program offers a Certificate in Brewing and Distillation Technology. The college has a 7-barrel commercial brew house on campus, and is licensed by the state of Michigan as a Brewpub. Student-brewed beers are served in the culinary program’s American Harvest restaurant/brewpub, with a 10-tap service area.
Kalamazoo
This program, offered jointly with Kalamazoo Valley Community College, includes both associates and bachelor’s degrees in Sustainable Brewing.
MINNESOTA
Dakota County Technical College
Rosemount
This school offers a one-year certificate program in Brewing & Beer Steward Technology.
MONTANA
Montana State University Billings
Billings
This school offers a new Certificate in Craft Brewing and Fermentation that combines learning experiences in the science, business and technology aspects of the brewing industry.
NEW YORK
Schenectady County Community College
Schenectady
The 13-week craft beer course at SCCC covers the science of brewing from raw materials to boiling to fermentation to packaging, and also touches on workplace safety, engineering and analysis.
State University of New York, Cobleskill
Cobleskill
Starting in fall 2017, SUNY Cobleskill will be offering a four-year, Bachelor of Technology in Fermentation Science program.
NORTH CAROLINA
Boone
The school offers both a four-year Bachelor of Science in Fermentation Science and five-day brewing short courses during the summer.
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Asheville
A-B Tech’s Associate of Applied Science in Brewing, Distillation and Fermentation is a two-year program with hands-on brewing courses and classes in inspection, law, marketing and more.
OREGON
Corvallis
On top of the multiple beer and brewing resources listed in the story, Oregon State offers a four-year Fermentation Science program.
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia
The Brewing Science program at the University of the Sciences is offered in one-year and two-year iterations, and offers evening courses for flexibility.
VERMONT
Salisbury
The American Brewers Guild offers brewing classes and 22-27 week diploma programs. The longer of the two programs includes a five-week apprenticeship.
Burlington
The Business of Craft Beer Certificate offered by the University of Vermont takes place online and covers business operations, sales, digital marketing and social media.
WASHINGTON
Ellensburg
Potential brewing students at CWU can either pursue the yearlong Craft Beer Certificate program or a full 4-year Bachelor of Science in Craft Brewing.
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