2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 932 people earned their degree in food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant, making the major the 1224th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 38 food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Grayson College

Denison, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$7,336 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grayson College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Grayson College is a small public school situated in Denison, Texas. It awarded 6 associates’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

Grayson College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Grayson College is $7,336 for southwest region associate degree food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant at Grayson College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant (Income $30-$48k)

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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