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2022 Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k

2 Ranked Colleges
12 Degrees Awarded
$3,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant is the 1224th most popular major in the country with 932 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant 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 “Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Grayson College

Denison, Texas
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Grayson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Denison, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Grayson College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Grayson College is $6,639 for Associate Degree Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

Washtenaw Community College

Ann Arbor, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washtenaw Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate For Those Making $0-$30k. Washtenaw Community College is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 associates’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees to qualified students.

Washtenaw Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Washtenaw Community College is $266 for Associate Degree Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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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