2022 Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 10,007 people earned their degree in culinary arts/chef training, making the major the 135th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 48 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 39 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

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

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Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree culinary arts/chef training students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$8,902 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Maine Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in South Portland, Maine. It awarded 10 associates’s culinary arts/chef training degrees in 2019-2020.

SMCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $8,902 for maine associate degree culinary arts/chef training students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend SMCC.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $0-$30k)

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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