2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Culinary Arts for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$30,405
Avg Salary
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. 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 the Great Lakes Region for Culinary Arts for a Bachelor’s” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 1,900 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,807 and $15,954 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 culinary arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality culinary arts programs as well as strong veteran support.
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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The culinary arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Culinary Arts for a Bachelor’s”.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Culinary Arts for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Culinary Arts for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Louis University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Culinary Arts for a Bachelor’s list. NLU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
NLU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Culinary Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Of the 7,402 students enrolled at NLU, 15 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 14 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,078. To help with additional expenses, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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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