2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts is the 460th most popular major in the country with 3,156 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 39 general cooking and related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 general cooking and related culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general cooking and related culinary arts. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in general cooking and related culinary arts.

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Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree general cooking & related culinary arts students.

Top 4 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts in the Plains States Region

1

Butler Community College
El Dorado, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Butler Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate list. This medium-sized school is located in El Dorado, Kansas, and it awarded 14 associates’s general cooking and related culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at Butler CC

2

Iowa Central Community College
Fort Dodge, Iowa

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa Central Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, this medium-sized public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified associates’s general cooking and related culinary arts students in 2020-2021.

Full Iowa Central Community College General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Report

2

Flint Hills Technical College
Emporia, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Flint Hills Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate. Flint Hills Technical College is a public institution located in Emporia, Kansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at Flint Hills Technical College

4

United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend United Tribes Technical College. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate. This small school is located in Bismarck, North Dakota, and it awarded 3 associates’s general cooking and related culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts at United Tribes Technical College

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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