2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $0-$30k) in Vermont

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Vermont, there were 18 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent culinary arts/chef training programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the culinary arts/chef training program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k.

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

#1

New England Culinary Institute

Montpelier, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$26,073 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Culinary Institute landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Montpelier, Vermont, this small private for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified associates’s culinary arts/chef training students in 2019-2020.

New England Culinary Institute not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Vermont” list. It costs about $26,073 for Vermont Associate Degree Culinary Arts/Chef Training students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend New England Culinary Institute.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Culinary Arts/Chef Training at New England Culinary Institute

• 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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