2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in Arizona

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Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager is the 488th most popular major in the country with 1,394 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Arizona, there were 16 restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,722 and $16,974 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in Arizona” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in Arizona

The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona associate degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in Arizona

1

Pima Community College
Tucson, Arizona

#11 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Pima Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Pima County Community College District is a fairly large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 14 associates’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Pima County Community College District Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Report

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Arizona Western College
Yuma, Arizona

#21 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona Western College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in Arizona list. AWC is located in Yuma, Arizona and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager at AWC

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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