2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income Over $110k) in Connecticut

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Connecticut For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Culinary Arts is the 80th most popular major in the country with 21,906 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Connecticut, there were 116 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,033 and $15,893 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 33 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,719 and $18,083 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.

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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Connecticut For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Connecticut For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut associate degree culinary arts students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income Over $110k) in Connecticut

#1

Manchester Community College

Manchester, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$7,142 Average Net Price

$31,848 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Connecticut For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Manchester, Connecticut, this small public school handed out 23 diplomas to qualified associates’s culinary arts students in 2019-2020.

MCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. The estimated yearly cost for Manchester Community College is $7,142 for connecticut associate degree culinary arts students whose families make more than $110k.

Read more about Culinary Arts at MCC

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income Over $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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