2022 Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager is the 456th most popular major in the country with 1,673 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 189 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager programs and 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 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Baker College

Owosso, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$13,376 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Baker College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Owosso, Michigan, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baker College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Baker College is $13,376 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager at Baker College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $0-$30k)

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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