2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income Over $110k)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making Over $110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making Over $110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making Over $110k

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income Over $110k)

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Culinary Arts Schools for a Master’s For Those Making Over $110k list. Boston U is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 masters’s culinary arts degrees to qualified students.

Boston U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Boston U Culinary Arts Report

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.

Credits

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