by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Culinary Arts Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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.
Across Illinois, there were 668 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,223 and $13,205 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Culinary Arts Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in culinary arts. To top this list, a school must have a successful culinary arts program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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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 “Most Well Attended Culinary Arts Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree culinary arts students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Culinary Arts Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, National Louis University landed the #1 spot on the list. NLU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 10 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Culinary Arts at National Louis University
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Culinary Arts Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Roosevelt University landed the #2 spot on the list. Roosevelt University is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s culinary arts degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Culinary Arts Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Dominican University landed the #3 spot on the list. River Forest, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s culinary arts degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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