2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Connecticut

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 an Associate in Connecticut” 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 Connecticut, there were 667 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,400 and $12,498 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 59 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,719 and $18,083 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent personal and culinary services programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The personal & culinary services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Connecticut”.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Connecticut.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Connecticut

#1

Manchester Community College

Manchester, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$7,142 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. MCC is located in Manchester, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 23 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

MCC also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend MCC is $7,142 for connecticut associate degree personal & culinary services students.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Manchester Community College

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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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