2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $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 Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 21,906 people earned their degree in culinary arts, making the major the 80th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, culinary arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,822 and had an average of $19,004 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the culinary arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 18 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston University are $57,666, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Boston U

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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