2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant/Food Services Management (Income $30-$48k)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in restaurant/food services management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality restaurant/food services management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the restaurant/food services management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree restaurant/food services management students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant/Food Services Management (Income $30-$48k)

#1

Universidad del Este

Carolina, <nil>

$3,552 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Universidad del Este. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Carolina, , this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s restaurant/food services management students in 2019-2020.

UNE also made our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Universidad del Este are $3,552, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Restaurant/Food Services Management at Universidad del Este

#2

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York

#1 in overall quality

$23,799 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Culinary Institute of America. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Hyde Park, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s restaurant/food services management degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

The Culinary Institute of America also took the #1 spot in our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Culinary Institute of America are $23,799.

Full Culinary Institute of America Restaurant/Food Services Management Report

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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