by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 196 people earned their degree in culinary science/culinology, making the major the 984th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 culinary science/culinology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in culinary science/culinology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in culinary science/culinology.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for a Master’s list. Located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s culinary science students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read more about Culinary Science/Culinology at Mississippi State
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Culinary Science Major for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 9 masters’s culinary science degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
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