If you plan on majoring in culinary arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #97 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Culinary Arts Schools in Mississippi ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 330 degrees in culinary arts annually.
The culinary arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Culinary Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for culinary arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Culinary Arts Schools in Mississippi list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the culinary arts degree levels they offer.
Meridian Community College is a good option for students pursuing a degree in culinary arts. Located in the remote town of Meridian, MCC is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 14th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were approximately 14 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at MCC in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in culinary arts needs to take a look at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Located in the rural area of Perkinston, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 10th out of 24 colleges for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were roughly 95 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in culinary arts has to look into Hinds Community College. Located in the rural area of Raymond, Hinds Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #976 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Hinds Community College is a great college overall.
There were about 97 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at Hinds Community College in the most recent data year.
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).
The culinary arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Culinary Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for culinary arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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