Once you have successfully passed the final exam of the chosen bartender course, you will receive a Recognized Certificate that will certify your skills and mark the beginning of your career in the world of mixology and/or coffee making.

You will have studied recipes and knowledge previously unknown to you, practiced extensively, and refined your technique, transforming yourself into a true professional, finally ready to aim at entering the job market in Italy or abroad.

Whether you decide to stay in the “Bel Paese” or embark on a working adventure in England, Spain, France, Germany, the United States, Dubai, or Australia, you will have the chance to achieve countless satisfactions and fall more and more in love with this job together with the guests lucky enough to taste your drinks.

All this will be possible thanks to the professional training program carried out during the recognized barista course you will have completed and the certificate of achievement issued by MIXOLOGY Academy, an institution internationally certified under ISO9001:2015 standards.

Those who attend and complete the path to becoming a Coffee Master will obtain not one, but 4 Certificates from MIXOLOGY Academy.

Every time in your life you had to learn something new, at the beginning you probably found it more difficult than expected.

If you’ve already gotten your driver’s license, try to remember the first practical lessons and the difficulty of coordinating the clutch, accelerator, and brake pedals together with the gear lever. However, after practicing over and over, the process became almost automatic and today you are perfectly able to drive a car while talking to someone next to you or on the phone – even though you’re not supposed to! 🙂

If you practice a sport or have any hobby that requires learning, you will have noticed that over time and with practice everything becomes easier, and when training to become a bar professional the concept is exactly the same.

Becoming a barista in coffee making who is truly ready to start working is anything but simple.

On the contrary, already during the first lesson of any of our professional courses, you will realize how many things you will have to learn before being able to work calmly – and competently – behind the counter.

To gain a certain naturalness behind the bar, you can choose two paths:

1. start working right away, putting into practice “as best you can” everything you learned during the course and probably forgetting most of what you only heard, saw, or did once;
2. perfect and train yourself as much as possible.

And for this reason MIXOLOGY Academy is, in fact, an Academy where attendance is not limited to a few hours, days, or weeks, but every student has the opportunity to refine the techniques learned, practice, and retake the courses they attended for 12 months and beyond.

During coffee practice, you will have the chance to alternate between the various coffee machines available in the classroom with your classmates. In this specific case, this is intentional because each Trainer can effectively follow at most 2 students at a time – for a simple visual reason – during the simultaneous preparation of multiple coffees and cappuccinos in “coffee speed working,” that is, the multiple production of daytime bar drinks.

Since MIXOLOGY Academy was founded, it has based its training on practice, and over time several schools have tried (unsuccessfully) to copy us by offering to let students retake the course for free if they are not satisfied.

The ACADEMIC YEAR is something entirely different, since according to our teaching philosophy you MUST practice even if you feel you have understood the entire program: because being good in the classroom in front of your classmates and the instructors who have followed you from day one is one thing, and being good in the workplace is another.

You need much, much, much more practice than you can get by completing a course program just once within a set timeframe, not to mention that each of us has different learning times. If you need 2 months to reach the level required to work in a prestigious venue, maybe your classmate needs 3, or 6! If you don’t train and don’t test yourself, you won’t know!

At school, how long did it take you to learn an entire history chapter? After the first reading, were you already able to remember all the dates and names the teacher expected you to know by heart?

If the answer is yes, then congratulations, because that means school was much easier for you than for most of us. But the majority of people need to struggle several times with something new because doing a program only once, as happens in all traditional bartender schools, is NOT enough to truly learn how to work.

Furthermore, to facilitate this type of both theoretical and practical learning, at MIXOLOGY Academy we have created and registered a method called Global Bartending, thanks to which our students are able to make the most of their training and practice period and find work all over the world.

For some time now, the Academic Year has also been integrated through an App (which includes some exercises for training at home) and a streaming platform that allows you to follow LEVEL UP, our online continuous training program for professional and personal growth.

MIXOLOGY Academy can boast the only Bartender Academy—or rather, the only Academies (with campuses in Rome and Milan), each with over 90 workstations divided across 5 classrooms covering more than 600 square meters per facility. Every classroom is equipped with the most modern tools, and each individual workstation for bartender courses is provided with all the equipment necessary to carry out the training. This means that:

1. You will never have to share your workstation with anyone during live training, allowing you to take full advantage of the hours of lessons, practice, and training 12 months a year, in addition to all the online learning;
2. during the course you won’t need to purchase any tools. On the contrary, we will provide you with a Bar Equipment KIT FREE of charge that you can keep at home and use during online lessons and once you start working.

Since the very first day we started training, we have strongly believed in an educational approach that makes practice an integral part of learning.

If you don’t try and repeat a new movement, a technique you didn’t know before, or a recipe you had never seen prepared, your learning will be slow and full of gaps.

On the contrary, by practicing for as long as you need—and therefore well beyond the standard duration of a program—you will truly make this profession your own in a “relatively short” time, even if you start from scratch. We say “relatively” because we are the first to encourage our students to take advantage of the Academic Year available to them for as long as possible.

Whether it takes weeks, months, or years doesn’t really matter: what truly matters is that at the end of the period best suited to your learning pace, you are finally ready to start working as a true professional.

Some people tend to take for granted that, since we have such large campuses—the largest in Italy and worldwide in the field of bar training—our attention towards students is not as optimal as in smaller schools.

In reality, the opposite is true, because each National campus of our Academy operates as a true company with procedures and quality standards that are constantly tested in order to keep improving.

We have set a maximum number of students per Trainer in the classroom, specifically 6 for coffee courses, but data shows that we almost never reach that limit despite the hundreds of students attending our courses every year. This is because we have many instructors who are not forced to work exhausting shifts under poor conditions just to “keep things running.”

Working with us means having balanced shifts, because we don’t want to overwork our Trainers and prevent them from giving their best in the classroom. In addition, they receive salaries well above the national average, not to mention the bonuses we frequently award to the entire staff.

Training with us, on the other hand, means being supported before, during, and after the course not only by enthusiastic and energetic Trainers—who spend much of their time continuing to train themselves at our expense—but also by the administration staff, each student’s Tutor, and the people working at Bartender JOB, our job listing agency.

In the end-of-course evaluation forms, it’s no coincidence that the phrase most often associated with us by our own students is that “we are like a second family”. But we invite you to get to know us in person, see it with your own eyes, and put us to the test. 🙂

MANAGE YOUR CLASS ATTENDANCE BASED ON YOUR AVAILABILITY!

The Academy offers courses from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 23:00

And on Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00.

You can attend courses with the following schedules:

• Weekday Schedule = from Monday to Friday in the morning (10:00 – 14:00), afternoon (15:00 – 19:00), or evening (19:00 – 23:00) with the option to change the time slot even after the course has started;
• Weekend Schedule = Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00;
• Super Intensive Schedule = 8 hours of lessons per day from Monday to Friday (from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00, or other time slots to be agreed upon);
• Customized Schedule = in agreement with the Academic Office you can customize lesson times and days, provided that the chosen course program and available spots allow it.

If you miss one or more lessons, depending on availability you will be offered the chance to resume from the point in the program you had reached, make up the missed lessons on another day/shift, or at most in the next course, which you can retake from the beginning at no additional cost within 12 months of enrollment.

Through our Bartender Agency “BARTENDER JOB” we collect the résumés of professionals trained in the Academy’s classrooms and present them to venues—both in Italy and abroad—that are looking for staff.

To give you an interesting figure: thanks to the support of our bartender and barista agency, from 2017 to 2019 94.3% of our students found a job within 3 months of completing a professional MIXOLOGY Academy course, while in 2020, despite the severe economic and health crisis, this statistic still stood at 78.71%!

In 2021, thanks to the recovery of the entire sector and the incredible work of the Trainers, the agency, and of course our students themselves, we managed to surpass pre-2020 levels with an exceptional rate of 96.93% of those who completed one of our courses and found a job within 3 months of certification with MIXOLOGY Academy. An extraordinary result, which we further improved the following year with 98.19%!

The bartender agency service, as well as inclusion in our internal register of bartenders and coffee baristas, is completely FREE both for venues seeking staff and for professionals wishing to apply for one of our job postings.

If you are opening a venue with a food and beverage service, you probably already know that, in order to obtain a bar license, you need to accumulate a certain number of points.

These points are tied to a series of documents that you must submit to the Municipality where your bar is located. The ideal professional to turn to for these procedures is a specialized surveyor – or the architect/architecture firm you’ve entrusted with the renovation of the premises. Below, however, we anticipate some of the requirements needed to obtain your new Food and Beverage Service License:

• SAB Course (formerly REC) on Food and Beverage Service, or alternatively, you can appoint a “preposto” (responsible person) who has the necessary credentials to compensate for not taking the course through proven field experience (demonstrated by work contracts in the sector of a certain duration);

• HACCP Course (available through our partners in Rome and Milan) on risk analysis and critical control points in food and beverage service;

• Specialization courses in the sector;

• Various health and hygiene authorizations;

• Etc.

Regarding the “specialization courses” requirement, one of the possible ways to earn points is to present one or more certificates obtained after attending professional training courses in the field.

In this respect, the professional specialization certificates issued by the MIXOLOGY Academy will allow you to earn up to 10 points (the maximum allowed under the “sector specialization courses” requirement) toward obtaining a Food and Beverage Service License.

This professional training program can be paid for using the following options:

• Up to 12 monthly installments with Zero Interest using any Credit Card, Debit Card, or certain prepaid/reloadable cards such as Poste Pay Evolution or Intesa San Paolo’s Superflash card (also available for students and people without payslips or guarantors);

• Up to 36 convenient monthly installments with Zero Interest, with the first installment due 30 days after enrollment;

• One-time payment in full.

Below you’ll find more details about the available payment methods for our professional courses:

UP TO 12 MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS WITH ZERO INTEREST

You can split the course cost into up to 12 monthly installments (1 year) without interest using any Credit Card, Debit Card, or certain prepaid/reloadable cards such as Poste Pay Evolution or Intesa San Paolo’s Superflash card.

This installment plan does not require approval from financial institutions, nor payslips or guarantors: all you need is a valid ID and a compatible card. The payment works like a normal in-store transaction on a POS terminal, except that the amount will automatically be spread into up to 12 installments with no added interest.

Importantly, your foundational training will be completed well before you finish paying: this means that once you’ve completed one of our professional courses, you can start working as a bartender or barista and cover the remaining installments with your own income. We will also help you find a job FREE of charge through our partner job placement agency, Bartender JOB.

UP TO 36 MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS WITH ZERO INTEREST

You can also spread the cost of your chosen course into up to 36 monthly installments with zero interest. The number of installments available for each course is listed on the respective “course page” at corsiperbarman.it.

With this option too, you can spread payments over a long period, and according to our statistics, for several years now, more than 9 out of 10 of our students have found employment within 3 months of completing a professional course at MIXOLOGY Academy — well before finishing their payments.

While all interest is fully covered by MIXOLOGY Academy, the only additional cost you will need to cover is a €16 administrative stamp duty for opening the installment plan.

Approval for installment payments of up to 36 months can be granted within a few hours. In case of approval and signing of a course contract (bartender, barista, bar manager, or others), the first installment will be charged via direct debit (RID) 30 days after signing.

Even students without a payslip can apply for this installment option, as long as they have a bank or postal account (their own or a parent’s) and a guarantor with a payslip (such as a parent, friend, or relative). To start the installment plan application, only a valid ID and tax code are required.

ONE-TIME PAYMENT

You can also pay the entire cost of the bartender/barista/bar business course in one lump sum before it begins.

Payment can be made in cash (within legal limits), by credit/debit/prepaid card (such as Poste Pay Evolution or Intesa San Paolo’s Superflash card), by bank check, or via bank transfer.

As a welcome gift for completing your enrollment in the Coffee Master program, you will receive:

• 1 Bartender Bag with Equipment Kit (value €274) – FREE

• WOW Welcome Box with Professional Apron (value €147)

• BARMAN BASICS Box Set (value €157) – FREE

Altogether, the gifts you’ll receive add up to a total value of €600 — but for you, everything is absolutely free!

The Bartender Bag includes latte art cups, professional pens, and other essential tools for coffee-making.

The WOW Box contains exclusive gadgets for our students, including the “family ring” and a personalized professional work apron (worth €147 on its own).

Finally, in the Barman Basics Box Set, you’ll find a video course (accessible via USB stick or streaming), plus books, a manual, a recipe book, and many other useful materials to help you dive deeper into this world.

When people embark on a training program that will allow them to start working, they often have many doubts on their mind:

• Can I really trust this institution?

• Will I feel comfortable in that environment?

• Will I be able to understand the things they’ll explain to me?

• Is this truly the best solution for me?

And most likely, the questions you’re asking yourself right now are many, many more — and that’s completely normal.

Whenever we make an investment, especially one that concerns our future, we all want the best and absolutely do not want to risk making the wrong choice.

The courses at MIXOLOGY Academy are NOT “study vacations” where you’ll learn, in a vague and superficial way, how to make a few cocktails or cappuccinos. They are instead real professional training programs designed for job placement — even though our students love the teaching method we’ve developed and have fun attending our lessons. So, if you’re not looking for a hobby course but a real career opportunity, we can probably be of great help.

All our professional courses are designed specifically for people with no prior experience in the field, while those already working as bartenders, baristas, or bar managers can deepen their knowledge with the Academy’s specialization programs.

Since starting a professional growth path can feel risky despite all the information you may gather, we’ve decided to apply our “100% Satisfaction or Your Money Back Guarantee” to all our courses:

👉 If, after completing 20% of a course’s program hours (or 20% of the first module of a professional program), you are not satisfied with our work — or simply realize this is not the next step you want to take in your life — then, with no ifs or buts, we will refund your entire enrollment fee. And you will even get to keep the course manual.

As you can see, we are an Academy whose goal is to train professionals who achieve extraordinary results in this sector. That’s why, if you’re not fully convinced you want to pursue such an ambitious project with us, it’s only fair that you stop right away — and not spend a single euro just for trying.