2024 Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
354Culinary Arts/Chef Training Degrees Awarded
Culinary Arts/Chef Training is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #168 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for culinary arts/chef training students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 354 degrees in culinary arts/chef training to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Culinary Arts/Chef Training School
Your choice of culinary arts/chef training school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Culinary Arts/Chef Training School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Culinary Arts/Chef Training Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Culinary Arts/Chef Training in Illinois
The schools below may not offer all types of culinary arts/chef training degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Illinois Schools in Culinary Arts/Chef Training
It is hard to beat National Louis University if you want to pursue a degree in culinary arts/chef training. Located in the large city of Chicago, NLU is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #393 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means NLU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 43 culinary arts/chef training students who graduated with this degree at NLU in the most recent year we have data available.
City Colleges of Chicago - Kennedy-King College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in culinary arts/chef training. Located in the city of Chicago, Kennedy-King College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 1877th out of 2,217 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were roughly 110 culinary arts/chef training students who graduated with this degree at Kennedy-King College in the most recent year we have data available.
Joliet Junior College is a great choice for students interested in a degree in culinary arts/chef training. Located in the suburb of Joliet, Joliet Junior College is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 57th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 31 culinary arts/chef training students who graduated with this degree at Joliet Junior College in the most recent data year.
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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Your choice of culinary arts/chef training school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Culinary Arts/Chef Training School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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