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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 General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,303 people earned their degree in general cooking & related culinary arts, making the major the 460th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 479 general cooking & related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 60 general cooking & related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general cooking & related culinary arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general cooking & related culinary arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree general cooking & related culinary arts students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Culinary Institute Inc landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 40 associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees in 2021-2022.
Read more about General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at Culinary Institute LeNotre
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Navajo Technical University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Crownpoint, New Mexico, this small public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at Navajo Technical University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Arizona College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Southwest Region. Coolidge, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at Pinal County Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mohave Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. MCC is located in Kingman, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at Mohave Community College
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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