2022 Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Culinary Arts/Chef Training is the 135th most popular major in the country with 10,007 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,457 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree culinary arts/chef training students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $75-$110k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Henry Ford College

Dearborn, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$8,889 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Henry Ford College landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Dearborn, Michigan, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s culinary arts/chef training degrees in 2019-2020.

Henry Ford College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Henry Ford College is $8,889 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts/Chef Training students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Henry Ford College Culinary Arts/Chef Training Report

#2

National Louis University

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$21,269 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s culinary arts/chef training students in 2019-2020.

NLU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for NLU is $21,269 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts/Chef Training students whose families make $75-$110k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training (Income $75-$110k)

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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