2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k) in Massachusetts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that 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 Massachusetts, there were 89 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,550 and $13,921 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent culinary arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the culinary arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $75-$110k

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k) in Massachusetts

#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 in Massachusetts For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston U is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 18 masters’s culinary arts 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 in Massachusetts” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’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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