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Program Description for Baking and Pastry	View Basket

Provider

Baker College-Muskegon

Date of last update

4/27/2012

Description

This program trains and prepares graduates for pastry chef and other bakery supervisory positions. People with baking and pastry skills are employed in retail bakeries, fine dining restaurants, pastry and bakery shops, commercial baking operations, country clubs, and hotel and resort bake shops, where they utilize their experience to artfully prepare baked goods and specialty sugar and chocolate pieces. This program also prepares graduates to skillfully manage the respective operations as well as prepare them for leadership roles in the bakeshop and in the special knowledge and techniques used in professional baking and pastry outlets. Typical duties include production of pastries, baked goods and specialty items, staff selection and training, purchasing, inventory control, item costing and overall bakeshop management. Instruction is provided through a combination of classroom, hands-on laboratory, and internship education experience. The nature of this work requires graduates to be able to spend long hours on their feet, work in a fast-paced, detail oriented production environment, have strong mathematical and critical thinking skills, and be able to control and manage a multitude of tasks while working within budgetary and time restrictions.

Contact Name

Kathy Jacobsen

Contact Phone Number

(231) 777-5200

Contact URL

www.baker.edu

Course Length

117 Credit Hours

Admission Requirements

High school diploma or its equivalent (such as a General Educatiional Development certificate) are accepted or Ability to Benefit

Credential Earned

Associate's Degree

Other Credential Description

None

Sources of Financial Assistance Accepted

Individual Training Accounts, Pell Grants, State grants, loans and scholarships.

Estimated Waiting Period to Enter Program

0 Days

License Fee for Employment

Program Cost

$31,660

Additional Costs

Yes, $500

Internship/Externship Required

Yes, 120 hours

New Program

Completion Rate

100.0%

Number of Graduates in the last year

Employment Rate

100.0%

Follow-up information is available for 16 out of 16 graduates:

Number Employed:	16
Number in Related Training:	0
Number in the Military:	0
Number Self-Employed:	0
Number not in any of these categories:	0

This training provider may have elsewhere published an employment rate that is measured in a different way. Please call the provider for further details.

Training-Related Placement Rate

100.0%

There are several ways to measure both placement success and the degree to which this is training-related. Please call the school for further details.

Average Starting Wage

$8.75

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