2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Illinois (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Personal & Culinary Services is the 31st most popular major in the country with 119,853 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $17,656 and had an average of $12,064 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 4,733 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,223 and $11,966 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great personal and culinary services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

National Louis University

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$14,957 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Louis University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

NLU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend NLU is $14,957 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid.

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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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