2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef is the 284th most popular major in the country with 4,190 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 575 baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree baking & pastry arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Paul Smiths, New York

#1 in overall quality

$19,804 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Paul Smiths, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s baking and pastry arts students in 2019-2020.

Paul Smith’s College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is $19,804 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Baking & Pastry Arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Paul Smith’s College Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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