2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 38 food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools

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 in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Grayson College

Denison, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$7,877 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Grayson College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Denison, Texas, and it awarded 6 associates’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Grayson College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Grayson College is $7,877 for southwest region associate degree food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant students with aid.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant (With Aid)

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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