2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training in Alabama

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 10,007 people earned their degree in culinary arts/chef training, making the major the 135th most popular in the United States.

Across Alabama, there were 72 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 48 culinary arts/chef training graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,270 and $19,839 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality culinary arts/chef training programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the culinary arts/chef training program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Alabama” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Alabama

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Alabama.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts/Chef Training in Alabama

#1

Wallace State Community College, Hanceville

Hanceville, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$7,411 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wallace State Community College, Hanceville. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools for an Associate in Alabama. Wallace State, Hanceville is a small public school situated in Hanceville, Alabama. It awarded 3 associates’s culinary arts/chef training degrees in 2019-2020.

Wallace State, Hanceville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Alabama” list. It costs about $7,411 for Alabama Associate Degree Culinary Arts/Chef Training students per year to attend Wallace State Community College, Hanceville.

Read full report on Culinary Arts/Chef Training at Wallace State, Hanceville

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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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