When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 915 people earned their degree in restaurant/food services management, making the major the 511th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 196 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in restaurant/food services management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their restaurant/food services management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students.
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 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region. HCC is a fairly large school located in Tampa, Florida that handed out 2 associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Charles Town, West Virginia, this large private for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified associates’s restaurant/food services management students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valencia College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region list. Valencia College is a large public school situated in Orlando, Florida. It awarded 4 associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region. Copiah-Lincoln Community College is a small school located in Wesson, Mississippi that handed out 0 associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees in 2021-2022.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indian River State College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant/Food Services Management Major in the Southeast Region list. Fort Pierce, 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 0 students in 2021-2022.
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