A degree in culinary arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #97 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Oregon to determine which ones were the best for culinary arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 123 degrees in culinary arts to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Culinary Arts Schools in Oregon ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the culinary arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
Southwestern Oregon Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in culinary arts. Located in the remote town of Coos Bay, SWOCC is a public college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the culinary arts program state that they receive average early career income of $24,482.
Central Oregon Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in culinary arts. COCC is a small public college located in the small city of Bend.
Culinary Arts degree recipients from Central Oregon Community College earn a boost of approximately $3,101 over the average earnings of culinary arts majors.
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).
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