2025 Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in New Jersey
3Colleges in New Jersey
176Culinary Arts/Chef Training Degrees Awarded
A degree in culinary arts/chef training is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #168 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 176 degrees in culinary arts/chef training annually.
Choosing a Great Culinary Arts/Chef Training School
The culinary arts/chef training program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Culinary Arts/Chef Training rankings. For our Best Overall Culinary Arts/Chef Training School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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.
Culinary Arts/Chef Training Rankings by Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in New Jersey list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Culinary Arts/Chef Training in New Jersey
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the culinary arts/chef training degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New Jersey Schools in Culinary Arts/Chef Training
Atlantic Cape Community College is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in culinary arts/chef training. Located in the rural area of Mays Landing, Atlantic Cape Community College is a public college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #978 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Atlantic Cape Community College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 21 culinary arts/chef training students who graduated with this degree at Atlantic Cape Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Hudson County Community College if you want to pursue a degree in culinary arts/chef training. HCCC is a medium-sized public college located in the large city of Jersey City. This college ranks 42nd out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 37 culinary arts/chef training students who graduated with this degree at HCCC in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Brookdale Community College if you want to pursue a degree in culinary arts/chef training. Brookdale Community College is a medium-sized public college located in the suburb of Lincroft. This college ranks 31st out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 16 culinary arts/chef training students who graduated with this degree at Brookdale Community College in the most recent data year.
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).