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2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
51 Degrees Awarded
$8,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Culinary Arts is the 80th most popular major in the country with 21,906 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, culinary arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,822 and had an average of $19,004 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 109 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,000 and $20,003 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 51 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,858 and $15,601 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great culinary arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the culinary arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland associate degree culinary arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts (Income $0-$30k) in Maryland

#1

Howard Community College

Columbia, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for an Associate in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k. This medium-sized school is located in Columbia, Maryland, and it awarded 11 associates’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

HCC also made our “Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for HCC is $8,777 for Maryland Associate Degree Culinary Arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Howard 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

  • *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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