At Conestoga College in Kitchener, Canada, Diploma in Baking and Pastry Arts Management is offered as a diploma in Patisserie & Baking Arts programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,477 per year (CAD 2,750 per year for local students).
Conestoga's Baking and Pastry Arts Management is a two-year, hybrid-delivery Ontario College Diploma at the Waterloo campus for aspiring bakers and pastry chefs. Training in state-of-the-art baking labs covers artisan breads, laminated doughs and viennoiseries, specialty cakes and decorative techniques, chocolates, confections, ice cream and sorbets, and classic and modern tarts, entremets and petits fours, paired with business management skills for bakery operations. Graduates leave prepared to launch their own bakery or lead in a professional kitchen.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), or equivalent, or mature-student status at 19 years of age or older. The programme requires Grade 12 compulsory English at a C or U level, or equivalent, or Conestoga's Preparatory Communications, plus Grade 11 Mathematics at C, M (University/College) or U level, or equivalent, or Conestoga's Preparatory Mathematics. Canadian citizens and permanent residents holding transcripts from outside Canada must obtain a course-by-course credential evaluation from an approved provider. Applicants whose prior instruction was not in English must demonstrate English language proficiency; the programme page states no score of its own, so Conestoga's published diploma-level minimum applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band below 5.5, TOEFL iBT 80 with no skill below 20, PTE Academic 53, or Duolingo 110. Conestoga notes that a sound mathematical and English background is considered during selection and that minimum cutoffs apply.
Application Details
Start Date:Intake month: September. Start dates listed by Conestoga on 6 September 2026, for domestic and international applicants alike: September 2026 at Waterloo. An individual campus intake may already be closed.
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca (college code CONS): for the Fall 2027 intake the online application opens 26 September 2026, the equal consideration date is 1 February 2027, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and accepted offers must be confirmed by 1 May 2027; most oversubscribed programs stop accepting applications after 1 February 2027, though many programs remain open afterward. Conestoga does not publish a separate equal-consideration date for its January intake. International applicants apply directly to Conestoga and are assessed on a rolling, first-come, first-served basis until each program fills; no fixed international closing date is published. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
