LEADING INTERNATIONAL CULINARY ARTS HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL For more than 30 years, the school has been training expert, committed and responsible leaders and managers of tomorrow in the culinary arts, hospitality, food service and pastry sectors and represents an ecosystem that is unique in the world for initial training, research and professional training. Institut Lyfe welcomes 1,200 students encompassing 75 nationalities, offering an unrivalled multicultural campus, just a few minutes from Lyon. It provides excellence in training from Bachelor's to MSc level.
LEADING INTERNATIONAL CULINARY ARTS & HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
For more than 30 years, the school has been training expert, committed and responsible leaders and managers of tomorrow in the culinary arts, hospitality, food service and pastry sectors and represents an ecosystem that is unique in the world for initial training, research and professional training.
Institut Lyfe welcomes 1,200 students encompassing 75 nationalities, offering an unrivalled multicultural campus, just a few minutes from Lyon. It provides excellence in training from Bachelor's to MSc level.
Our educational philosophy is based on experiential learning, on a unique training ground-school centred around project management, talent discovery, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity (6 restaurants including one Michelin-starred, 4 hotels including a 5-star hotel, 17 cooking and pastry laboratories).
Today, the objective of Institut Lyfe is to be part of the world's top 3 higher education schools for the hospitality, gastronomy and service professions, confirming its status as a vocational school while guaranteeing the academic level of a business school. Also, our coaches providepersonalized supportto help you develop your soft skills and refine your career plan.
RECOGNITION & QUALITY THE EXPERIENCE OF EXCELLENCE
BECOME A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
The international dimension of Institut Lyfe has been rooted in its DNA since its creation: worldwide mobility, courses available in English*, internships, conferences, lectures by professors from all over the world, our school actively encourages openness and sharing to foster intercultural exchanges. A community of graduates in over 90 countries will give you access to a solid professional network.
*Depending on curriculum
EXCITING JOBS OPPORTUNITIES
Choosing a career in hospitality not only means choosing a job with a human touch, a passion for passing on knowledge, but also the guarantee of finding a job quickly, with responsibilities and global scope. Your soft skills are easily transferable to many other sectors. You'll benefit from over 2,500 selected internship and job offers a year, and monthly career events to forge close ties with our 1,000 partner companies.
Which job is right for you?
> Hit the road with our career orientation course
OPEN DAYS
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HOW TO JOIN US
If you have a French baccalaureate and would like to join one of our Bachelor's courses in the 1st year, go to Parcoursup for enrolment for September 2025.
If you are not in this case, apply here.
Institut Lyfe’s main campus is located just a few minutes from Lyon city centre (France), the gastronomic capital of France renowned for its attractive quality of life.
Located just 5 minutes on foot from the school, our student hall of residence offers 104 bedrooms equipped with a private bathroom (1st year students and international students are given priority for campus accommodation, subject to availability). Please visit our website for more information, go to Student Experience and then Accommodation.
Equal opportunities and Excellence scholarships are awarded to French and international students admitted to the 1st year of a Bachelor’s degree, by the Institut Lyfe Foundation, to fund part of the tuition fees.
These are renewable each year, based on academic and attendance criteria, and can be combined with Crous scholarships.
Worldwide Hospitality Awards(2017)
Best Masters in Hospitality Management, Eduniversal (2023)
Eduniversal (Since 2019)
Conférence des Grandes Écoles
THE-ICE (International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education)
EFMD Global
Please visit our website for more information.
The school is located on a campus designed to help our students find the right balance between work and leisure thanks to our vibrant Students' Unions. Our Feel Good Campus team will encourage them to get involved in a range of activities organised by clubs and societies covering in sports (tennis, yoga, football, cross training..), charity work, culture and the arts. Happy, ambitious and confident students is what best defines our school !
