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

6 Ranked Colleges
263 Degrees Awarded
$13,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado” ranking.

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 Colorado, there were 4,020 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,050 and $11,887 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 263 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,269 and $19,040 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in personal and culinary services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality personal and culinary services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 6 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Colorado

#1

Arapahoe Community College

Littleton, Colorado
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arapahoe Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado. Located in Littleton, Colorado, this fairly large public school awarded 37 degrees to qualified associates’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

Arapahoe Community College also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $10,119 for colorado associate degree personal & culinary services students per year to attend Arapahoe Community College.

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

#2

Pikes Peak Community College

Colorado Springs, Colorado
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pikes Peak Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado. Pikes Peak Community College is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 48 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

PPCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The yearly cost to attend PPCC is $10,336 for colorado associate degree personal & culinary services students.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Pikes Peak Community College

#3

Trinidad State Junior College

Trinidad, Colorado
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinidad State Junior College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado. Trinidad State Junior College is located in Trinidad, Colorado and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

Trinidad State Junior College also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Trinidad State Junior College is $10,544 for colorado associate degree personal & culinary services students.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Trinidad State Junior College

#4

Lamar Community College

Lamar, Colorado
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lamar Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado. Located in Lamar, Colorado, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

LCC also took the #6 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. It costs about $10,604 for Colorado Associate Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend Lamar Community College.

Full Lamar Community College Personal & Culinary Services Report

#5

Colorado Mesa University

Grand Junction, Colorado
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Mesa University landed the #5 spot on the list. Colorado Mesa University is a public institution located in Grand Junction, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado Mesa also took the #5 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Colorado Mesa University is $15,569 for Colorado Associate Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Colorado Mesa

#1 in overall quality

Johnson & Wales University - Denver did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Colorado ranking, coming in at #6. This small school is located in Denver, Colorado, and it awarded 80 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

JWU Denver did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” list. It costs about $26,221 for colorado associate degree personal & culinary services students per year to attend JWU Denver.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Johnson & Wales University - Denver

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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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