2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Personal & Culinary Services for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
108
Degrees Awarded
$35,735
Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Personal & Culinary Services for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 130,328 people earned their degree in personal and culinary services, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $18,795 and had an average of $12,190 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 4,063 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,897 and $11,960 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 108 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent personal and culinary services programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Personal & Culinary Services for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Personal & Culinary Services for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Personal & Culinary Services for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #1 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to 107 students in 2020-2021.
JWU Providence also took the #1 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Johnson & Wales University - Providence supports 5,676 students, and 265 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 175 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,319. On top of their other funding sources, 9 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Johnson & Wales University - Providence offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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