2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts is the 460th most popular major in the country with 3,303 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 29 general cooking & related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 general cooking & related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts in the Plains States Region

1

United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend United Tribes Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Bismarck, North Dakota, and it awarded 0 associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees in 2021-2022.

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2

Flint Hills Technical College
Emporia, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Flint Hills Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region. Emporia, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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3

Butler Community College
El Dorado, Kansas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Butler Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in El Dorado, Kansas, and it awarded 11 associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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4

Iowa Central Community College
Fort Dodge, Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa Central Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and it awarded 3 associates’s general cooking & related culinary arts degrees in 2021-2022.

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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

• *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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