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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 3,156 people earned their degree in general cooking and related culinary arts, making the major the 460th most popular in the United States.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 237 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 72 general cooking and related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,822 and $20,997 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general cooking and related culinary arts programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general cooking and related culinary arts program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region associate degree vets studying general cooking & related culinary arts.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pikes Peak Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts for an Associate list. Colorado Springs, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s general cooking and related culinary arts degrees to 56 students in 2020-2021.
PPCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 2,372 of the 12,506 students enrolled at Pikes Peak Community College were GI Bill® students, of which 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,023. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Pikes Peak Community College does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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