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2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
119 Degrees Awarded
$20,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 21,906 people earned their degree in culinary arts, making the major the 80th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 5,704 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,616 and $17,992 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 119 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 5 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.

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 culinary arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts in the Southeast Region

#1

Nicholls State University

Thibodaux, Louisiana

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nicholls State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Thibodaux, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s culinary arts degrees to 40 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Nicholls State University, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Nicholls State University is $12,247 for southeast region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students.

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#2

The Art Institute of Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of Virginia Beach. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree culinary arts students list, Ai Virginia Beach has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $23,561 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts students per year to attend Ai Virginia Beach.

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#3

The Art Institute of Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of Atlanta. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ai Atlanta, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ai Atlanta is $23,051 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts students.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend AI Miami International University of Art and Design. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Miami, Florida, this small private for-profit school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s culinary arts students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at International Fine Arts College, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for AI Miami International University of Art and Design is $20,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts students.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - North Miami landed the #5 spot on the list. Johnson & Wales University - North Miami is a small private not-for-profit school situated in North Miami, Florida. It awarded 13 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at JWU North Miami, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $22,909 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Culinary Arts students per year to attend JWU North Miami.

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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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