2022 Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Restaurant/Food Services Management is the 451st most popular major in the country with 1,031 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 362 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in restaurant/food services management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great restaurant/food services management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the restaurant/food services management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant/Food Services Management (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Valencia College

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$4,870 Average Net Price

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Valencia College landed the #1 spot on the list. Orlando, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Valencia College also made our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Valencia College is $4,870 for southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

Hillsborough Community College

Tampa, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$3,203 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hillsborough Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Tampa, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

HCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $3,203 for southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend HCC.

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#3

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$10,013 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American Public University System. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. American Public University System is a private for-profit institution located in Charles Town, West Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students whose families make $0-$30k list, American Military University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend American Military University is $10,013 for southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#4

Stratford University

Fairfax, Virginia

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stratford University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Stratford University is located in Fairfax, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees to qualified students.

Stratford University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Restaurant/Food Services Management at Stratford University

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant/Food Services Management (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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