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.
There was only one school in New Mexico to review for the 2025 Best Culinary Arts Schools in New Mexico ranking.
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 New Mexico.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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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.
Central New Mexico Community College is a great choice for students interested in a degree in culinary arts. CNM is a fairly large public college located in the city of Albuquerque.
Students who receive their degree from the culinary arts program make an average of $23,139 in their early career salary.
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).