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2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts

6 Ranked Colleges
22 Degrees Awarded
$38,764 Avg Salary
Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major

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Culinary Arts is the 97th most popular major in the country with 19,806 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, culinary arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $24,855 and had an average of $17,765 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in culinary arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their culinary arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree culinary arts students.

Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Culinary Arts

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Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major list. Boston U is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major. Charlotte, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s culinary arts degrees to 206 students in 2020-2021.

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Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major list. Drexel University is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 9 masters’s culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major list. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 1 masters’s culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #2 spot on the list. JWU Providence is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 403 masters’s culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.

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Johnson & Wales University - Online
Providence, Rhode Island

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culinary Arts Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Online landed the #2 spot on the list. Johnson & Wales University - Online is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 0 masters’s culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.

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