Culinary Arts Institute

The Culinary Arts Institute provides students with the ability to prepare themselves with an exciting career in the foodservice industry. Students will be trained by leading chefs throughout the nation. The program consists of 10 four week courses.

International Tourism Research Institute

Tourism creates jobs, income, new businesses, and a better quality of life. The International Tourism Research Institute exists to make this happen in your community or for your business. The institute serves international, national, regional, state, and local clients. The mission of the institute is to provide innovative assistance focused on tourism-related issues to communities, regional development organizations, state and federal agencies, and individual businesses. The Institute advocates for the tourism industry, focusing on tourism-related issues, providing credible data, and promoting the industry as a viable economic development strategy.

National Restaurant Institute

Wine & Beverage Institute

The Wine and Beverage Institute at the University of South Carolina is pleased to offer several courses designed to appeal to the wine  enthusiast, wine hobbyist, and wine professional. Five wine courses have been developed to appeal to those interested in wine at all levels. Each course meets one night per week for four consecutive weeks. While the program is designed to offer a University of South Carolina  certificate upon completion of all five courses, each individual course is taught as a stand alone unit so that interested participants can choose to enroll in all or some of the courses offered. Each course offers extensive tasting.

The Alfred P. Sloan Travel and Tourism Industry Center
Industrialist Alfred P. Sloan, who established the foundation bearing his name, believed that the reservoir of knowledge that exists within universities should be shared with the leaders of industry. He encouraged the creation of Sloan Industry Centers to function as the conduit for communication between academe and business. Sloan Industry Centers are lodged at the nation’s most prestigious universities, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University. The Alfred P. Sloan Travel and Tourism Industry Center at the University of South Carolina has adopted the typical Sloan Center model of bringing together the best and the brightest faculty of the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management and the Moore School of Business to engage in interdisciplinary study of industry issues and concerns in partnership with industry leaders to arrive at positive conclusions and solutions.