2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2021-2022, 1,394 people earned their degree in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager, making the major the 488th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 325 restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager. That schools that top this list have a program in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cobleskill. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Cobleskill, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to 12 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 more about Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager at SUNY Cobleskill

2

Lackawanna College
Scranton, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lackawanna College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Scranton, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.

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

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Pennsylvania College of Technology
Williamsport, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Williamsport, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Pennsylvania College of Technology Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Report

4

Delaware Valley University
Doylestown, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware Valley University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Delaware Valley University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Delaware Valley University Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager 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

• *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.

Credits

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