2025 Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado

an associate degree in personal & culinary services is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #15 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,228 associate degrees in personal & culinary services during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on personal & culinary services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of personal & culinary services students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt personal & culinary services students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized personal & culinary services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for personal & culinary services students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The personal & culinary services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Colorado.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Personal & Culinary Services in Colorado

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in personal & culinary services.

Top Colorado Schools for an Associate in Personal & Culinary Services

1

Arapahoe Community College
Littleton, CO

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

42 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Arapahoe Community College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in personal & culinary services. Arapahoe Community College is a large public college located in the large suburb of Littleton.More information about a associate in personal & culinary services from Arapahoe Community College

2

Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Boulder
Boulder, CO

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

1,117 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in personal & culinary services has to take a look at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Boulder. Escoffier - Boulder is a medium-sized private for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Boulder.More information about a associate in personal & culinary services from Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Boulder

Best Personal & Culinary Services Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Personal & Culinary Services Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	35	71
Idaho	35	19
Wyoming	32	29
Montana	30	17

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Personal & Culinary Services Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Culinary Arts	1,175
Funeral & Mortuary Science	41
Cosmetology	12

Majors Similar to Personal & Culinary Services

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanic & Repair Technologies	554
Precision Production	176
Construction Trades	52
Transportation & Materials Moving	34

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Army Europe Images. More about our data sources and methodologies.