When visting a culinary school what important questions would you ask?

You’ll want to find out about what kinds of connections they have with bakeries and restaurants as far as placing interns. Where have they placed students in the past? Do they have overseas internship possibilities? Where have grads gone on to work? Can they refer you to any alums who would be willing to give their opinions of the program (these are the people who will give you the best assessment of how well the program prepared them for the real work world).

As they show you around the facilities, sneak peaks into the hard-to-get-to places in the kitchens—under tables, crevices, etc.—to judge the cleanliness ethic of the school; that’s one of the first things to go when students and staff stop giving a shit. The other thing to look at in this regard is general condition of equipment; if you see lots of beat-up stuff, that’s not a good sign.

Ask about the professional histories of the baking faculty. Where did they work before starting to teach, then ask yourself if those are the kinds of places that you’d want to end up working.

“Can we eat our homework?”

@Harp Thank You!!!!!

I see that you’re located in/ near Maryland… Are you looking at BIC by chance? If you are, I can give you some warnings about them.

@Harp mentioned most of the good things to check out. I’d only add- find out when their “labs” are. Some of them are lengthy (4 hours or more) and are hard to work around if you have a job. Ask them what their graduation rate is.

OMG I WANNA GO TO BAKING SCHOOL TOO