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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 119,853 people earned their degree in personal and culinary services, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 5,512 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,948 and $12,834 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality personal and culinary services programs that also have a lower cost than 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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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 the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$17,740 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 26 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMN Twin Cities, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMN Twin Cities is $17,740 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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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