2022 Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

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

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 50 baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef. 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree baking & pastry arts students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Paul Smiths, New York

#1 in overall quality

$22,604 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science landed the #1 spot on the list. Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is a small school located in Paul Smiths, New York that handed out 7 bachelors’s baking and pastry arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Paul Smith’s College also made our “Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Paul Smith’s College is $22,604 for Bachelor’s Degree Baking & Pastry Arts students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

#2

Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$25,508 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #2 spot on the list. Johnson & Wales University - Providence is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 43 bachelors’s baking and pastry arts degrees in 2019-2020.

JWU Providence did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $25,508 for bachelor’s degree baking & pastry arts students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend JWU Providence.

Read more about Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef at JWU Providence

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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