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Associate of Science Degree in Baking and Pastry Arts

Associate of Science Degree in Baking and Pastry Arts

Earn Your Baking & Pastry degree!

If your passion is baking, then Sullivan’s Baking & Pastry Arts program will enable you to make an indelible mark on an industry that demands both creativity and skill.

Our program provides you with hands-on training in baking theory and technique, as well as opportunities to test your skills in regional, national, and international competitions.

"Under Sullivan’s world-renowned chef-instructors, you will learn how to create both modern and traditional breads, pastries, candies, and desserts. Best of all, Baking & Pastry Arts students complete practicums and externships at restaurants and bakeries locally, regionally, and internationally in order to gain experience.

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Program Highlights and Locations

  • Sullivan University's College of Hospitality Studies is renowned in the culinary world, having long set the standard for hospitality education, and earning a reputation over the past three decades as one of the top hospitality schools in the U.S.
  • Sullivan’s Baking and Pastry Arts student competition team hold an impressive winning record. Sullivan recently sent four members of the team to the Internationale Kockkunst Ausstellung Culinary Olympics in Germany. Since there is no student category in the Culinary Olympics, the team competed against the absolute best chefs from 45 nations—and still all but swept the competition. The team brought home one silver medal, two bronze medals, and a diploma proving that a baking and pastry arts education from Sullivan is truly world-class.
  • Thanks to Sullivan’s streamlined approach to education and year-round 11-week quarters, you can complete your degree in just 18 months.
Locations:
Louisville Campus

Objectives

  • To provide premier, foundational knowledge, skills, and experiential learning to students entering into the hospitality industry by teaching both practical and knowledge-based industry standards.
  • To teach students classic methods needed to produce essential pastry items--from artisan bread baking to advanced sugar making to chocolate work--while also introducing them to necessary ingredient functionality and working knowledge of how ingredients react to each other.

Where will a degree from Sullivan take you?

With an Associate of Science in Baking & Pastry Arts degree from Sullivan University, you'll gain the skills and experience you need to work as a pastry chef or baker at places such as:

  • Fine restaurants
  • Bakeries
  • Hotels and resorts
  • Cruise lines
  • Catering business
  • Specialty shops, such as a chocolatier, boulangerie, or confectionary
  • Research and development kitchens
  • Your own business

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Courses

Total Credit Hours: 96

Length: 21 months, 18 months accelerated (day)

Time length for program completion will vary depending upon the number of courses taken per term, developmental courses when required, transfer credit accepted, lack of continuous enrollment, etc.

Course

Title

Credit Hours

BFS 104

4.00

BFS 106

6.00

CAM 134

4.00

CAM 174

4.00

CAM 284

4.00

HRM 164

4.00

PBA 124

4.00

PBA 126

6.00

PBA 134

4.00

PBA 136

6.00

PBA 216

6.00

PBA 244

4.00

PBA 246

6.00

PBA 266

6.00

ENG 101

4.00

ENG 102

4.00

FYE 105

4.00

GEC 220

4.00

MTH 115

4.00

4.00

4.00

Total Credit Hours: 96

Length: 21 months, 18 months accelerated (day)

Time length for program completion will vary depending upon the number of courses taken per term, developmental courses when required, transfer credit accepted, lack of continuous enrollment, etc.