2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in Wisconsin

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Wisconsin, there were 21 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 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 an Associate in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in Wisconsin

#1

Southwest Wisconsin Technical College

Fennimore, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$9,955 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwest Wisconsin Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fennimore, Wisconsin, this small public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified associates’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students in 2019-2020.

Southwest Tech also made our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Southwest Wisconsin Technical College is $9,955 for Wisconsin Associate Degree Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2

Waukesha County Technical College

Pewaukee, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$10,165 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Waukesha County Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin. Waukesha County Technical College is a medium-sized public school situated in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 11 associates’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees in 2019-2020.

WCTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. The estimated yearly cost for WCTC is $10,165 for wisconsin associate degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students.

Read more about Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager at WCTC

#3

Western Technical College

La Crosse, Wisconsin

#3 in overall quality

$10,081 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for an Associate in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Technical College landed the #3 spot on the list. Western Technical College is a public institution located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Western Technical College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. The yearly cost to attend Western Technical College is $10,081 for Wisconsin Associate Degree Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager

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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