Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Profesyonel Pastacılık (Stajlı)
Professional Pastry (with internship)
Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi (MSA) · MSA Campus, Maslak, Istanbul · Türkiye
- Official award
- MSA Profesyonel Pastacılık Diploması
- Duration
- 6 months with internship; 3 months without internship
- Delivery
- Hybrid · Flexible
- Tuition
- TRY 550,000see costs below
Award and recognition
Pastry fundamentals and advanced techniques: cookies, cakes, sponge, pastry creams and glazes, entremets, meringues, macarons, frozen desserts, tarts and quiches, bread, laminated and choux doughs.
- Qualification category
- Diploma
- Award status
- Provider-issued awardIssued by the training provider itself. Check separately whether any authority or employer recognises it.
- Awarding body
- Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi (MSA)The page also lists a CTH Diploma (L2 level) that applies to the internship-inclusive programme only.
- Issued by the school
- Yes: the provider issues this award itself
- Framework level
- other level 2As stated in the source: CTH diploma level as published; the source does not map it to a national framework.. A framework level does not make different national awards equivalent.
- On completion
- MSA Professional Pastry diploma, a CTH diploma (L2 level, internship programme only), and an M.E.B.-approved certificate as listed.
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Subject
- Baking & pastry, Pâtisserie
- Entry level
- Beginners welcome
Stated by the schoolT.C. Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı (Ministry of National Education)Licence to operate or award
Scope: School states its professional education programmes are approved by the Ministry; no ministry register was fetched.
Structure and practical training
- Duration
- 6 months with internship; 3 months without internship
- Delivery
- HybridPart online and part in person. A hybrid program is never described as fully online.
- Teaching language
- Turkish
- Published teaching hours
- 24 hours
- Practical kitchen hours
- 226 hours
- Note on hours
- Total 250 hours.
Source quote partly matched; being reviewed.
Internship and placement
School-arranged placement
The school arranges the placement for students.
- Published duration
- 3 months, compulsory for the internship-inclusive (ages 18-40) programme
No placement is guaranteed unless the school states so. Restaurant names or logos on a school’s site do not prove a current training partnership.
How the online or hybrid delivery works
Online coursework does not mean no physical practice. These are the published practical requirements.
- Coursework
- Theory is reinforced with online tools; practical training is delivered face to face on campus.
Admissions
- Minimum age
- 18
- Intakes
- January 2027: weekday groups start 4 January 2027
- Official application
- Application and instructions
Source quote partly matched; being reviewed.
Costs
Original currency is authoritative. Tuition, mandatory extras and accommodation are shown separately and never converted or added together for you.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eğitim Ücreti (internship-inclusive programme)Tuition · mandatory | TRY 550,000for the whole program, January 2027 intake | All students | 16 October 2026SourceSource quote partly matched; being reviewed. |
No mandatory extras (uniform, knife kit, ingredients, equipment, examination fees) are published for this program. Ask the school what is not included in the tuition.
Funding
Early registration cash price Funding
Basis not stated · 475,000 TL instead of 550,000 TL
Applications and registrations made up to 13.11.2026
Sources and verification
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. How verification works.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)