Baker College

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Since 1911, Baker College has been dedicated to its mission "to provide quality higher education and training, enabling graduates to be successful throughout challenging and rewarding careers."
Driven by this mission and guided by our principles, Baker College is dedicated to providing a meaningful educational experience for every student. Whether you are a high school student, an adult considering higher education or skill advancement, or a college graduate seeking advanced studies, Baker College will help you achieve your personal and professional goals.
Baker College is committed to academic excellence in all of its degree programs. Operating as a career-focused college, designing curriculum to meet student career needs and the employment market is at the core of everything we do. Academic excellence begins with our high-quality faculty who hold the appropriate educational credentials, possess credible professional work experience, and demonstrate the remarkable ability to assimilate educational theory into practice.
Additionally, up-to-date infrastructure and new learning tools are essential components to ensure our students experience a continual environment of academic excellence. Consequently, Baker College maintains campus facilities with state-of-the-art classrooms and hands-on laboratories. It provides faculty and students with high-tech, advanced technological tools for teaching and learning.
For more than 100 years, Baker College has been meeting students' and employers' needs by providing quality academic programs and producing skilled and proficient graduates. We remain committed to serving our communities to advance their economic growth and sustainability.
We are sure you have heard it all before: to get a good job, you will need some education after high school. With more than two-thirds of jobs requiring a post-high school education, a promising career is going to depend on getting the right education - but it might even be easier than you are expecting.
Even if many jobs require a post-high school degree, not all of them require the typical four-year education. We offer certificates, associate degrees, and bachelor's degrees in a wide range of disciplines, perfect for securing you the job you want in whatever field you are interested in.
From engineering to education, from information technology to health science, and everything in between, we can get you the perfect amount of education to start you down the right path. No filler classes. No wasted time. Just the classes you need to focus on your goal: starting a great career in the field you want. Explore our undergraduate programs today and see how close your dream career can be. Get in, get out, and get going.
We have one mission: to succeed. The only way we accomplish it is by helping you become successful. Getting an education can change your life, but it should not have to mean putting your life on hold. Our goal is to provide you with a high-quality education at Baker College that will help you get out there and start making meaningful progress in your career from day one.
Baker College has been around for over a century, so we know how to change with time. We only offer programs for career fields showing high rates of growth. Our programs are shaped by industry leaders, ensuring that our students enter the workforce with the skills and education today's employers want.
We also understand that earning a degree is just one of the many demands in your life. Whether you can commit to being a full-time student at one of our many Michigan campuses or you need the option to take classes online, Baker offers flexible scheduling so you can get an excellent education on your terms.
While we are Michigan's largest independent, not-for-profit College, you will not feel lost in the crowd. Each of our campuses has a very personal and friendly atmosphere, and we are dedicated to keeping class sizes down so that every student gets the individual attention they need.
Baker College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The HLC allows institutions three options for maintaining accreditation. Baker College chose the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) Pathway in 2006, which focuses on quality assurance and institutional improvement. The AQIP Pathway helps institutions achieve continuous quality improvement processes by providing a framework for the College to examine critical processes and analyze, understand, and explore opportunities for improvement. The AQIP Pathway follows an eight-year cycle.
The AQIP Pathway requires each institution to maintain three short-term action projects on an annual basis. The College identifies action projects that will have the most impact on quality improvement for the institution. Institutions are required to submit an annual Action Project Update describing their progress on at least one project per year to the HLC. This update is evaluated by an HLC peer reviewer, who provides feedback and guidance on advancing the project.
Modern education with a history of excellence. Putting students first for over a century. The beginnings of Baker College trace back to the turn of the 20th century, with the founding of Muskegon College by Woodbridge Ferris—who later became Governor of Michigan and then a U.S. Senator.
Just two decades later, Eldon E. Baker—an educator who built a highly successful business college in Winfield, Kansas—moved to Flint and founded Baker Business University, which stood at Court Street and South Saginaw. In 1965, these two institutions came together under a single academic group headed by Robert Jewell of Muskegon. Throughout the years that followed, the schools continued to thrive, and the group began to expand its outreach through the acquisition of other schools and locations.
Today, we are known as Baker College, the largest not-for-profit, independent College in Michigan. We have over 23,000 students in more than 100 programs, taught at nine on-ground campuses, multiple extensions campuses, and online. Most importantly, we remain dedicated to our original mission: to provide quality higher education and training that enable graduates to be successful throughout challenging and rewarding careers.

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