2023 Most Popular Associate 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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Culinary Science/Culinology is the 984th most popular major in the country with 196 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 culinary science/culinology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in culinary science/culinology. To top this list, a school must have a successful culinary science/culinology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree culinary science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Science/Culinology

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Niagara County Community College
Sanborn, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Niagara County Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for an Associate list. Niagara County Community College is a public institution located in Sanborn, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Niagara County Community College Culinary Science/Culinology Report

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SUNY Schenectady County Community College
Schenectady, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Schenectady County Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. SUNY Schenectady County Community College is a public institution located in Schenectady, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Culinary Science/Culinology at SUNY Schenectady County Community College

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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