2022 Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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.

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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef programs and 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Paul Smiths, New York

#1 in overall quality

$23,784 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Baking & Pastry Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Paul Smiths, New York. It awarded 7 bachelors’s baking and pastry arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Paul Smith’s College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Paul Smith’s College is $23,784 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree baking & pastry arts students.

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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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