2022 Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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 Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” 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.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant in the Southwest Region

#1

Grayson College

Denison, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$7,877 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grayson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Denison, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Grayson College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $7,877 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant students per year to attend Grayson College.

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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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