2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Science/Culinology (Income $0-$30k)

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Culinary Science/Culinology is the 977th most popular major in the country with 158 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 culinary science/culinology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great culinary science/culinology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the culinary science/culinology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Culinary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree culinary science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Science/Culinology (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York

#1 in overall quality

$25,981 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Culinary Institute of America. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. This small school is located in Hyde Park, New York, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s culinary science degrees in 2019-2020.

The Culinary Institute of America did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Culinary Science/Culinology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Culinary Institute of America is $25,981 for bachelor’s degree culinary science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Culinary Science/Culinology at Culinary Institute of America

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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