2025 Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
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Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
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Associate Degrees
Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #97 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 10 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 120 associate degrees in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.