Your Baking and Pastry Career Starts Here

Would you like to be an executive pastry chef of a popular bakery café? A corporate pastry chef at a Fortune 500 company? Or a famous baker seen by millions of viewers on the Food Network? If you dream of a successful career in the baking and pastry arts, then The Culinary Institute of America is the place to start—for a whole host of reasons:

• Extensive broad-based knowledge and specialized skills that ideally prepare you for the range of career options in foodservice and hospitality
• An outstanding placement rate, thanks to the college's industry-wide reputation for excellence
• Top industry employers who look to CIA graduates first when hiring
• A friendly and helpful Career Services staff that offers valuable assistance with finding the right career path, résumé writing, and interviewing skills
• A network of 43,000-plus alumni that's a great resource for career advisement and contacts throughout the industry

Whatever your baking and pastry career goals, we'll help you achieve them. You can use your associate or bachelor's degree in baking and pastry arts to become an artisan bread baker, bakery/café owner, caterer/event planner, chocolatier, entrepreneur, pastry chef, research & development chef, and so much more! Learm more about what CIA alumni are doing with their degrees!