2025 Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in Florida
4Colleges in Florida
146Associate Degrees
Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #153 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 146 associate degrees in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager School for Your Associate Degree
The restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in Florida ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in Florida
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students seeking a an associate degree.
Top Florida Schools for an Associate in Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).