2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,671 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,641 and $21,214 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in culinary arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great culinary arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the culinary arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

The Art Institute of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$27,535 Average Net Price

$28,816 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, The Art Institute of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. The Art Institute of Houston is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees to qualified students.

Ai Houston also took the #1 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ai Houston is $27,535 for southwest region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Ai Houston Culinary Arts Report

#2

The Art Institute of San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$27,286 Average Net Price

$28,816 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, The Art Institute of San Antonio landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this small private for-profit school awarded 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s culinary arts students in 2019-2020.

Ai San Antonio did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend The Art Institute of San Antonio is $27,286 for southwest region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at The Art Institute of San Antonio

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k)

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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