2022 Best Value Colleges for Culinary Arts in Connecticut (With Aid)

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 Value Culinary Arts Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” 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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality culinary arts programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut culinary arts students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Culinary Arts in Connecticut (With Aid)

#1

Manchester Community College

Manchester, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$7,142 Average Net Price

$36,160 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Manchester, Connecticut, and it awarded 27 ’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

MCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts Schools in Connecticut” list. The estimated yearly cost for MCC is $7,142 for Connecticut Culinary Arts students with aid.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Manchester Community College

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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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