Personal & Culinary Services is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #15 most popular associate degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of personal & culinary services. Combined, these schools handed out 1,365 associate degrees in personal & culinary services to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Personal & Culinary Services School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of personal & culinary services for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality personal & culinary services program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to personal & culinary services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other personal & culinary services students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for personal & culinary services to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized personal & culinary services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for personal & culinary services students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Personal & Culinary Services Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Personal & Culinary Services in the Rocky Mountains Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in personal & culinary services.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for an Associate in Personal & Culinary Services
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).