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Are you looking to change careers, perhaps into the sweet, but challenging field of commercial baking? Or, perhaps you're looking to offer your sales force an unusual incentive, a chance to study at a local baking school?/p>

Baking school programs range from making pies, cookies and cakes to creative culinary dessert art, where taste is only part of the equation. Such programs can be full-time or meet just one or two nights a week. Attending a professional baking school should qualify you to work in a restaurant kitchen as an assistant to the pastry chef.

Look for a culinary school that meets your time needs and your professional requirements. Baking schools vary greatly, so it's important to find one that will teach you what you wish to learn. Look also for a school that's near your home or office. After a long day at your day job, you'll be less likely to miss class if the school is located nearby.

When searching for baking schools, it's wise to review the offerings of several different culinary schools. Business.com offers a variety of programs. Visit the links on the left to learn more about what is available.

Baking Schools

Baking and pastry schools offer a large variety of programs

A baking education can include anything from a 1-day certificate course to a 4-year pastry and baking degree program at one of the culinary schools across the United States. Choosing the certificate or degree program, courses and baking training that's right for you is the key to advancing your baking career.

1. Find a school that offers baking course work that interests you.
2. Choose schools for baking based on their merit, course work and placement advantages.
3. Look for culinary baking training that fits into your budget and time table.

Network with other baking and pastry students to get information about baking schools. Join online culinary groups, and request information from as many culinary schools for baking as you can before making a decision on which one is right for you.

Choose accredited baking schools

Find schools based on their merit, accreditation and previous graduates.

Consider the length of the baking program

The length of baking and pastry programs varies widely depending on the certificate, diploma or degree. Find a program with the quantity and quality of training you desire.

Find a baking school that offers hands-on experience and good job placement

Talk to the school's placement offices and talk to recent graduates to find out if they were happy with the hands-on experience or placement help they got from the baking school.
The Connecticut Culinary Institute's Professional Pastry and Baking Program includes a 10-week paid externship. Find a school with good placement rates such as the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, with graduates who reportedly receive an average of two or three job offers each after graduation. The French Pastry School in Chicago begins the job placement process soon after you start their program.

National baking classes and schools

Many culinary schools provide locations throughout the country with pastry and baking classes and degrees.
Culinary schools that offer pastry and baking programs include the multi-state Johnson and Wales University that offers either an Associate's or Bachelor's degree in baking and pastry in North Carolina, Colorado, Rhode Island or Florida. Le Cordon Bleu Schools of North America has many locations throughout the country that offer Associate's, Bachelor's and certificate programs in baking and pastry.

Join a group like the American Society of Baking or the Bread Bakers Guild of America to network with other baking education students, employers and baking professionals.