2025 Best Culinary Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
4,159Culinary Arts Degrees Awarded
$24,750Avg Early-Career Salary
Culinary Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #97 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Culinary Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 4,159 degrees in culinary arts to qualified students.
Your choice of culinary arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Culinary Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Best Culinary Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Culinary Arts in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of culinary arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Culinary Arts
Salt Lake Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in culinary arts. Salt Lake Community College is a fairly large public college located in the suburb of Salt Lake City.
There were about 23 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at Salt Lake Community College in the most recent year we have data available. Culinary Arts degree recipients from Salt Lake Community College earn a boost of around $7,038 above the typical income of culinary arts majors.
Pueblo Community College is a great choice for students interested in a degree in culinary arts. Pueblo Community College is a medium-sized public college located in the city of Pueblo.
There were approximately 44 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at Pueblo Community College in the most recent data year.
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Boulder is a great option for students pursuing a degree in culinary arts. Escoffier - Boulder is a moderately-sized private for-profit school located in the midsize city of Boulder.
There were approximately 3637.9999999999995 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at Escoffier - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, culinary arts degree recipients typically make about $25,721 at the beginning of their careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of culinary arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Culinary Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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