2025 Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina

3 Colleges in North Carolina

129 Associate Degrees

If you pursue a associate degree in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #97 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef. Combined, these schools handed out 129 associate degrees in baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef to qualified students.

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Best Associate Degree Schools List

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Choosing a Great Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef School for Your Associate Degree

The baking & pastry arts associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality baking & pastry arts program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for baking & pastry arts/baker/pastry chef students working on their associate degree.

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When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.