2022 Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Massachusetts, there were 50 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in culinary arts/chef training. 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.

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 in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k

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

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $0-$30k) in Massachusetts

#1

North Shore Community College

Danvers, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$7,616 Average Net Price

$36,340 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, North Shore Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. North Shore Community College is a small school located in Danvers, Massachusetts that handed out 3 ’s culinary arts/chef training degrees in 2019-2020.

North Shore Community College also made our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $7,616 for Massachusetts Culinary Arts/Chef Training students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend North Shore Community College.

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#2

Massasoit Community College

Brockton, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$7,134 Average Net Price

$34,900 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Massasoit Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Massasoit Community College is a medium-sized school located in Brockton, Massachusetts that handed out 16 ’s culinary arts/chef training degrees in 2019-2020.

Massasoit Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. It costs about $7,134 for massachusetts culinary arts/chef training students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Massasoit Community College.

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