Culinary Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #97 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Culinary Arts Schools in Virginia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 294 degrees in culinary arts to qualified students.
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The schools below may not offer all types of culinary arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in culinary arts needs to take a look at ECPI University. ECPI University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the city of Virginia Beach.
Students who graduate with their degree from the culinary arts program state that they receive average early career wages of $23,274.
Tidewater Community College is a great option for students interested in a degree in culinary arts. Tidewater Community College is a large public college located in the medium-sized city of Norfolk.
Students who receive their degree from the culinary arts program make around $25,586 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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