Culinary Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #97 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for culinary arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 87 degrees in culinary arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Culinary Arts Schools in Missouri list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The schools below may not offer all types of culinary arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in culinary arts needs to check out Ozarks Technical Community College. Located in the midsize city of Springfield, OTC is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the culinary arts program make about $23,062 in their early career salary.
It's hard to beat Saint Louis Community College if you want to pursue a degree in culinary arts. Located in the suburb of Bridgeton, Saint Louis Community College is a public college with a large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the culinary arts program earn an average of $22,897 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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