2026 Best Value Culinary Science/Culinology Schools in Rhode Island

[Culinary Science/Culinology](/majors/personal-and-culinary-services/culinary-arts/culinary-science-culinology/) programs reward a close look at where your money goes furthest. The schools below stand out for delivering a strong culinary science/culinology education at a price that pays off.
To produce this 2026 ranking, College Factual evaluated 1 schools on the balance of cost and outcomes for culinary science/culinology students.
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2026 Best Value Culinary Science/Culinology Schools in Rhode Island
If you want to know which schools deliver the best value for the culinary science/culinology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Best Value Culinary Science/Culinology Schools
For return on investment in culinary science/culinology, no school beat Johnson And Wales University Providence this year. Set in the city of Providence, Johnson And Wales University Providence is a mid-sized private not-for-profit institution. Students from in state pay about $41,982 in tuition and fees. Typical student debt for culinary science/culinology graduates is $20,873. Early-career culinary science/culinology graduates make about $30,145. Set against $20,873 in median debt, that is a healthy payoff. Johnson And Wales University Providence admits about 88% of applicants.
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Notes and References
This ranking is produced by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs the cost of a degree against the earnings graduates go on to achieve, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Best Value · 1 school evaluated.
*Averages shown above reflect the top 1 ranked schools only.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.