2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 3,570 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,052 and $10,687 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 154 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in personal and culinary services. 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the New England Region

#1

Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$41,095 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern New Hampshire University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. SNHU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Manchester, New Hampshire. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SNHU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SNHU is $41,095 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at SNHU

#2

New England Culinary Institute

Montpelier, Vermont

#2 in overall quality

$26,777 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Culinary Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. New England Culinary Institute is located in Montpelier, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

New England Culinary Institute did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $26,777 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend New England Culinary Institute.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at New England Culinary Institute

#3

Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

#3 in overall quality

$26,775 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #3 spot on the list. Johnson & Wales University - Providence is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 133 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

JWU Providence also took the #3 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $26,775 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend JWU Providence.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Johnson & Wales University - Providence

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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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