2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Culinary Arts for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
109
Degrees Awarded
$23,826
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Culinary Arts for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Kentucky, there were 359 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,826 and $15,345 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 109 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,034 and $19,791 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent culinary arts programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the culinary arts program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Culinary Arts for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Culinary Arts for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Culinary Arts for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Kentucky
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Culinary Arts for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Sullivan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Sullivan University is a small private for-profit school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 80 associates’s culinary arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Sullivan University also made our “Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Kentucky” list, coming in at #1.Among the 3,165 students enrolled at Sullivan University, 52 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 32 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,619. On top of their other funding sources, 2 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Sullivan University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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