Baker College is a private nonprofit college located in Michigan, with its main campus in Owosso, Michigan. It was founded in 1911 and has eight campuses throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, including Auburn Hills, Cadillac, Jackson, Muskegon, and Owosso, as well as an online global campus. This regionally accredited four-year college offers undergraduate degrees (associates and bachelor's degrees) and graduate degrees (master's and doctoral degrees) in a range of areas, including business, education, engineering and information technology, health science (nursing and occupational therapy), liberal arts and sciences, and social science.

Baker College started as Baker Business University, which was founded in Flint, Michigan, in 1911, by Eldon E. Baker. In 1965 it merged with Muskegon College when representatives of the Jewell family, who owned and managed Muskegon College, bought Baker Business University. The university changed its name to Baker Junior College in 1974 and became a non profit corporation in 1977.^[2]

• 2008 - A closed auto dealership in Flint, Michigan is renovated and transformed into the Baker College Center for Transportation technology, opening to students in 2009.
• 2009 - Baker College's Culinary Institute of Michigan (CIM) opens to students interested in studying culinary arts, baking and pastry arts, and food and beverage management. The 3-story, 39,000-square-foot (3,600 m²) facility in downtown Muskegon, Michigan began construction in the spring of 2008 and was completed in the fall of 2009.^[3]
• Baker College of Flint IT students, and reigning champions of the 2008 National Student Cyber Defense competition, defend their title and take first place to become the only back-to-back winners in the history of the event.
• 2010 - Baker College of Cadillac opens its new Center for Transportation and Technology.
• 2011 - The Culinary Institute of Michigan is granted Exemplary Status accreditation through the American Culinary Federation (ACF). The Baker College system celebrates its 100th anniversary.
• 2017- Baker college went from quarters to semesters.
• 2020- Baker relocated main campus from Flint, Michigan to Owosso, Michigan.

In 2020, Baker College relocated its Flint, Michigan Campus to Owosso, Michigan. In addition, the Clinton Township and Allen Park campuses were relocated to Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Baker College has primarily grown through two methods: establishing new campuses and purchasing and rebranding existing small schools (for example, their Auburn Hills campus was once the Pontiac School of Business). They currently maintain fourteen ground campuses as well as an online college. Each campus is its own business entity, while an overarching Baker College Professional Services, Inc., coordinates campuses and services. Current campuses include:

• Owosso, Michigan
• Allen Park, Michigan
• Cadillac, Michigan
• Jackson, Michigan
• Muskegon, Michigan
• Corporate Services
• Center for Graduate Studies
• Baker College Online
• The Culinary Institute of Michigan
• The Auto/Diesel Institute of Michigan

The Culinary Institute of Michigan (CIM) is an affiliate institute of Baker College, offering associate degree programs at multiple campuses focused on some of the fastest-growing areas of food service: Baking and Pastry, Culinary Arts, and Food and Beverage Management. CIM offers world-class training facilities with small class sizes designed to meet the needs of culinary students.

In 2017, Baker College Culinary Institute of Michigan alum and chef Kimberly Ann Ryan won on the television culinary competition Hell's Kitchen (American TV series)^[4].

The Auto/Diesel Institute of Michigan (ADI) is an affiliate of Baker College, offering technical training, classrooms, and 43,000 square feet of real-world auto and diesel labs. The associate and certificate programs at ADI include: Automotive Services Technology, Diesel Service Technology, and Welding. Situated minutes from the Baker College of Owosso campus, ADI provides cutting-edge resources—from state-of-the-art tools and technology to master technicians who serve as instructors.

Baker College won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition: 2008, 2009.^[5] Baker College won the Michigan Collegiate Cyber Defense Network state championships in: 2007,^[6] 2009,^[7] 2010,^[8] 2012,^[9] 2014,^[10] 2015,^[11] 2016,^[12] 2017,^[13] 2018.^[14][15] They won the Michigan Collegiate Cyber Defense Network Cyber Wars championship: 2012.^[16] In 2019, Baker College was included in the Michigan Collegiate Cyber Defense Network Hall of Fame for being the only educational institution in the United States to win the national championship twice as well as for first and second place in multiple cyber defense competitions.^[17]

• Official website

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