2025 Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
441Baking & Pastry Arts Degrees Awarded
A degree in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #367 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 441 degrees in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef annually.
Choosing a Great Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef School
The baking & pastry arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Rankings by Degree Level
The baking & pastry arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Schools in the Southwest Region.
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Best Schools for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef in the Southwest Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the baking & pastry arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Baking & Pastry Arts
It is difficult to beat El Centro College if you want to pursue a degree in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef. Located in the large city of Dallas, El Centro College is a public college with a very large student population.
There were about 36 baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students who graduated with this degree at El Centro College in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Houston Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef. Houston Community College is a very large public college located in the large city of Houston.
There were approximately 40 baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students who graduated with this degree at Houston Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef needs to check out Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Austin. Escoffier - Austin is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large city of Austin.
There were approximately 82 baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students who graduated with this degree at Escoffier - Austin in the most recent year we have data available.
Culinary Institute Inc is a great decision for students interested in a degree in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef. Culinary Institute LeNotre is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of Houston.
There were about 35 baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students who graduated with this degree at Culinary Institute LeNotre in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The baking & pastry arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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