2022 Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

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 “Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts is the 417th most popular major in the country with 3,763 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 515 general cooking and related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 82 general cooking and related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general cooking and related culinary arts programs, but they also 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 general cooking and related culinary arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The general cooking & related culinary arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Mohave Community College

Kingman, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$12,333 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mohave Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. This small school is located in Kingman, Arizona, and it awarded 1 associates’s general cooking and related culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

MCC also made our “Best General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $12,333 for southwest region associate degree general cooking & related culinary arts students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Mohave Community College.

Read full report on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at MCC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k)

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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