The Certified Cook program is popularly known at Colegio EPI as the Apprenticeship Program (AP).

This is an industry-driven program which offers students a work-study learning experience with an academic validation. This is an innovative three-year certification program designed to produce certified cooks through a combination of work and study.

Students will be required to do full-time work in a food service kitchen under the guidance of a qualified chef, while also attending theory classes at campus once a week.