2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Science/Culinology

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Science Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 158 people earned their degree in culinary science/culinology, making the major the 977th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 culinary science/culinology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the culinary science/culinology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Culinary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Culinary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree culinary science students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Science/Culinology

#1

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York

#1 in overall quality

$28,546 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Culinary Institute of America. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Culinary Institute of America is located in Hyde Park, New York and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s culinary science degrees to qualified students.

The Culinary Institute of America not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Culinary Science/Culinology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $28,546 for bachelor’s degree culinary science students per year to attend Culinary Institute of America.

Full Culinary Institute of America Culinary Science/Culinology Report

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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