2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $30-$48k) in Pennsylvania

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Making $30-$48k” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 39 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $30-$48k) in Pennsylvania

#1

Jna Institute of Culinary Arts

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jna Institute of Culinary Arts. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Making $30-$48k. Jna Institute of Culinary Arts is a small school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 20 associates’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees in 2019-2020.

Jna Institute of Culinary Arts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $30-$48k)

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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