The main focus area for this major is General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Culinary Arts is a major offered under the personal and culinary services program of study at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Here, you’ll find out more about the major associate degree program in culinary arts, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at PVCC was $332 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $155 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $4,650 | $9,948 |
Fees | $140 | $845 |
Books and Supplies | $1,800 | $1,800 |
Learn more about PVCC tuition and fees.
The median early career salary of culinary arts students who receive their associate degree from PVCC is $25,100 per year. That is 3% higher than the national average of $24,331.
PVCC does not offer an online option for its culinary arts associate degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the PVCC Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their associate degree in culinary arts in 2019-2020, 66.7% of them were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 60.3%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 33.3% of the culinary arts associate degrees at PVCC in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 47%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 4 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Culinary Arts students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts | 6 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.