2023 Most Focused Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant

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 “Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 801 people earned their degree in food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant, making the major the 1267th most popular in the United States.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant students.

Top 5 Most Focused Colleges for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant

1

Grayson College
Denison, Texas

$37,430 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,559 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grayson College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major list. This small school is located in Denison, Texas, and it awarded 13 ’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

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

2

Washtenaw Community College
Ann Arbor, Michigan

$36,288 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,103 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washtenaw Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major. Washtenaw Community College is a public institution located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Washtenaw Community College Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Report

3

Washburn University
Topeka, Kansas

$44,384 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,486 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washburn University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major. Located in Topeka, Kansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified ’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant students in 2020-2021.

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3

Johnson & Wales University - Online
Providence, Rhode Island

$38,044 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,750 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johnson & Wales University - Online. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major. JWU Online is a small school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 0 ’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant at JWU Online

3

Monroe County Community College
Monroe, Michigan

$44,984 Average Early-Career Earnings

$17,766 Average Student Debt

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe County Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Monroe, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s food preparation/professional cooking/kitchen assistant degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant at Monroe 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.

Credits

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