WelcomeWelcome to COTHM Dubai
COTHM Dubai offers a variety of accredited programs. COTHM prides itself on getting its students ready for the hospitality industry as soon as they graduate. COTHM Dubai is approved and licensed by KHDA – Knowledge & Human Development Authority of the Govt. of Dubai.
Blended Learning, Real Skills
COTHM Dubai is a premier hospitality education and training institution that provides online and blended learning options to students. With a focus on delivering quality education and practical training, our courses are designed to help students acquire the necessary skills to excel in the hospitality industry.
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Faculty-Led Certification & Degree Pathways
We believe in offering personalized attention to each of our students, and our experienced faculty is dedicated to providing an engaging and supportive learning environment. Our course offerings include certification programs as well as degree progression programs from prestigious universities in the UK, USA, and Dubai.
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Study in a Vibrant City
Located in the vibrant city of Dubai, we offer students the opportunity to learn in a dynamic and diverse environment while enjoying all that the city has to offer. Join us today and take the first step towards a successful career in the hospitality industry!
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Culinary Arts to Management
We offer various hospitality courses ranging from culinary arts to hotel management, and our curriculum is tailored to meet the needs and expectations of the industry. Our online and blended courses ensure that you can study at your own pace and convenience, from anywhere in the world.
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Career Guidance & a Strong Network
At COTHM Dubai, we believe in providing quality education, training, and career guidance to our students. We have a strong industry network in the UAE, and our students are placed in some of the leading hotels and restaurants across the region. We are proud to have a growing community of professionals who have received training and employment opportunities through our programs.
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Direct Employment or Further Education
Join COTHM Dubai today and take the first step towards a successful career in the hospitality industry. Get started in a course leading to direct employment or further education and give your career a boost!
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Our Mission
To become a global leader in setting new standards of excellence in hospitality education & training, and addressing challenges of human resources in the context of ever-growing industry
A Preferred Choice
The preferred choice for education in hospitality management, culinary arts, baking & patisserie, travel & tourism, airline management and health & food safety. COTHM is an international hotel school group, its origin now COTHM UK, teaching from multiple campuses across several countries — the current figures are on the Key facts page, drawn live from the group’s student records. COTHM Dubai brings that curriculum to the UAE, approved and licensed by KHDA, the Knowledge & Human Development Authority of the Government of Dubai.
Since hospitality, travel and tourism is a global industry, building a career in any part of the world is the cross-cutting theme of our education system. We unlock the door to the international hospitality, travel and tourism industry for our graduates.
Virtual Campus
COTHM Virtual Campus is an online learning environment that provides students with a range of digital resources and tools to support their education. It’s an online space where students can attend classes, access course materials, collaborate with classmates, interact with instructors, and participate in various activities related to their studies.
COTHM Virtual Campus includes various features, such as online classrooms, discussion forums, chat rooms, video conferencing tools, digital libraries, and multimedia content. Our online learning eco-system encourages students to engage with their course materials and with each other in a dynamic and interactive way.
COTHM Virtual Campus offers a high degree of flexibility and convenience, allowing students to access course materials and participate in classes from anywhere with an internet connection.
For more information please contact: admin@cothm.ae
About KHDA Dubai

The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) is responsible for the growth and quality of private education in Dubai. KHDA supports schools, universities, parents, students, educators, investors and government partners to create a high quality education sector focused on happiness and wellbeing.
COTHM SUCCESS JOURNEY
Hospitality Education, Training Since 1999
Serving global hospitality and tourism value chain with the business proposition for everyone. Our solutions from strategy to concept design & execution, developing talent, publication and industry-academia linkage are breeding success for our partners.
Developing Future Hospitality Leaders
To produce future hospitality leaders who demonstrate positive attitudes, strong work values and who celebrate diversity whilst having the ability to lead in a multicultural environment in the ever-expanding global hospitality industry, placing its industry at the center-point of the training structure.
We are committed to progressively enhancing our outreach to address the human resources needs at all levels of hierarchy in the hospitality, travel and tourism industry globally.
Always-on Learning at COTHM Dubai
Hospitality career is probably going through a lot more change compared to our parents’ careers. The same goes for your skills. Times change, and for companies this means that real time and always-on learning is becoming the new standard.
If students & employees are not able to continuously learn new, more general skills, wherever and whenever they want, they will walk away. Research by Deloitte suggests that it is one of the most important trends in HR this year.
COTHM Dubai has positioned itself very rightly to offer learning & training courses that can be taken on-campus, on-job as well as online.
Learning Modes at COTHM Dubai
COTHM Dubai combines traditional and modern learning methods to ensure that we can deliver maximum to our students in minimum time. At COTHM Dubai students take advantage of various learning modes to put their career growth on fast-forward. At COTHM dubai students can enrol into three modes of study depending on their learning needs and other circumstances:
Blended Learning
Blended learning — also called “hybrid learning” — combines formal, traditional classroom instruction with non-formal online methodologies. COTHM’s approach integrates technology to boost learning and deliver business impact.
Distance Learning
Distance Learning courses use the same hospitality management textbook content used in major colleges and universities, giving you college-level material without the time or expense of a full college program.
Online Learning
Online learning — sometimes called “elearning” — lets COTHM Dubai students and employees study entirely over the Internet, from their own place and at their own pace. A formal certification still requires visiting a testing center for an invigilated exam.
Why Choose COTHM
Founded in 2002, the COTHM is the leading International Hotel School. COTHM is committed to upholding standards of excellence in education and training of Hospitality Management, Travel, Tourism & Airline Management, Culinary Arts and Baking & Patisserie. We are in the process of establishing collaborations with local & international institutes/universities to offer globally recognized hospitality courses.
GLOBAL PRESENCE & CONNECTIONS
We are connected globally with forward looking knowledge imparting bodies reshaping industry landscape and redrawing boundaries.
OUR TEAM IS OUR BRAND
Teamed up with industry's best, intellectually motivated brains serving our partners. Backed by over 15 years of progressive hospitality education management experience coupled with industry specific competence and expertise.
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DIVERSIFIED TALENT POOL
We add well-equipped hospitality talent to the industry every year. Graduates, current enrolments and the size of the network are on the Key facts page, drawn live from the group’s student records rather than written into this page.
INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
Innovation & creativity is the main ingredient of our services. Expanding and evolving hospitality industry with breadth taking speeding requires fresh mindset and new ideas. We cook them for you.
Testimonials
What People Say About Us
Hotel general managers, directors of kitchens and our own graduates have written about working with COTHM Dubai. Read what they said.
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