If you plan on majoring in culinary arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #97 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in South Carolina to determine which ones were the best for culinary arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 272 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for culinary arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
The culinary arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Culinary Arts Schools in South Carolina.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the culinary arts degree levels they offer.
Horry-Georgetown Technical College is a great choice for students interested in a degree in culinary arts. Located in the city of Conway, Horry-Georgetown Technical College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population. This college ranks 18th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were approximately 80 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at Horry-Georgetown Technical College in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the culinary arts program state that they receive average early career earnings of $24,466.
Technical College of the Lowcountry is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in culinary arts. TCL is a small public college located in the small city of Beaufort. This college ranks 33rd out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were roughly 2 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at TCL in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Greenville Technical College if you wish to pursue a degree in culinary arts. Located in the small city of Greenville, GTC is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #805 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means GTC is a great college overall.
There were roughly 42 culinary arts students who graduated with this degree at GTC in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the culinary arts program earn around $26,268 for their early career.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for culinary arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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