2022 Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking.

Restaurant/Food Services Management is the 451st most popular major in the country with 1,031 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 362 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 restaurant/food services management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in restaurant/food services management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great restaurant/food services management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the restaurant/food services management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students.

Top 4 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant/Food Services Management in the Southeast Region

#1

Valencia College

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$5,205 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valencia College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Valencia College is a public institution located in Orlando, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Valencia College also made our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $5,205 for southeast region associate degree restaurant/food services management students per year to attend Valencia College.

Read more about Restaurant/Food Services Management at Valencia College

#2

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Charles Town, West Virginia, and it awarded 8 associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees in 2019-2020.

American Military University also made our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for American Public University System is $10,222 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Restaurant/Food Services Management students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.

Read more about Restaurant/Food Services Management at American Public University System

#3

Hillsborough Community College

Tampa, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$3,238 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hillsborough Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Tampa, Florida, and it awarded 3 associates’s restaurant/food services management degrees in 2019-2020.

HCC also made our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend HCC is $3,238 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Restaurant/Food Services Management students.

Read more about Restaurant/Food Services Management at Hillsborough Community College

#4

Stratford University

Fairfax, Virginia

#4 in overall quality

$15,927 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stratford University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Restaurant/Food Services Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this small private for-profit school handed out 15 degrees to qualified associates’s restaurant/food services management students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Stratford University, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Restaurant/Food Services Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Stratford University is $15,927 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Restaurant/Food Services Management students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Restaurant/Food Services Management at Stratford University

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant/Food Services Management

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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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