2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region
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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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,725 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,481 and $17,581 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in culinary arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent culinary arts programs, but they also 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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Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.
Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Delhi. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. SUNY Delhi is a small public school situated in Delhi, New York. It awarded 15 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.
SUNY Delhi not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Delhi is $14,867 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Cobleskill landed the #2 spot on the list. SUNY Cobleskill is a small public school situated in Cobleskill, New York. It awarded 13 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students list, SUNY Cobleskill has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SUNY Cobleskill is $16,647 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Culinary Institute of America. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Culinary Institute of America is a small school located in Hyde Park, New York that handed out 39 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at The Culinary Institute of America, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $28,546 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students per year to attend The Culinary Institute of America.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lackawanna College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Lackawanna College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It awarded 6 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Lackawanna College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Lackawanna College is $18,120 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #5 spot on the list. Pennsylvania College of Technology is a small school located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Penn College also took the #5 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $25,794 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students per year to attend Penn College.
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Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Paul Smiths, New York, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s culinary arts students in 2019-2020.
Paul Smith’s College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $23,784 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students per year to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science.
With a ranking of #7, The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this small private for-profit school handed out 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s culinary arts students in 2019-2020.
The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College also took the #7 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College is $32,698 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students.
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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%.
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- *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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