2022 Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager is the 456th most popular major in the country with 1,673 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 39 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $0-$30k) in Pennsylvania

#1

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$22,255 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k list. This small school is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees in 2019-2020.

Penn College also made our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Penn College is $22,255 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

Lackawanna College

Scranton, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$16,635 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Lackawanna College landed the #2 spot on the list. Lackawanna College is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to qualified students.

Lackawanna College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The estimated yearly cost for Lackawanna College is $16,635 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager (Income $0-$30k)

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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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