2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Plains States 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 149,352 people earned their degree in personal & culinary services, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. In , personal & culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $18,568 and had an average of $9,794 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 6,532 personal & culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,305 and $9,457 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 personal & culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in personal & culinary services. That schools that top this list have a program in personal & culinary services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Plains States Region

1

College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of the Ozarks landed the #1 spot on the list. Hard Work U is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Point Lookout, Missouri. It awarded 6 bachelors’s personal & culinary services degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Hard Work U

2

Southwest Minnesota State University
Marshall, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwest Minnesota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region list. Southwest Minnesota State University is located in Marshall, Minnesota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s personal & culinary services degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Southwest Minnesota State University Personal & Culinary Services Report

3

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #3 spot on the list. UMN Twin Cities is a public institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Personal & Culinary Services Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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