2022 Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” 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 Arkansas, there were 40 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 30 general cooking and related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,815 and $15,092 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general cooking and related culinary arts 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 general cooking and related culinary arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts in Arkansas (With Aid)

#1

NorthWest Arkansas Community College

Bentonville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$6,574 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend NorthWest Arkansas Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid. This medium-sized school is located in Bentonville, Arkansas, and it awarded 30 associates’s general cooking and related culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

NWACC also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend NWACC is $6,574 for Arkansas Associate Degree General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts students with aid.

Read more about General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at NWACC

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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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