2022 Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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.

This year’s “Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in Pennsylvania

#1

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$25,794 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 that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Pennsylvania College of Technology is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to qualified students.

Penn College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $25,794 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students per year to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology.

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#2

Lackawanna College

Scranton, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$18,120 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lackawanna College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students in 2019-2020.

Lackawanna College also made our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Lackawanna College is $18,120 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager students.

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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).
• 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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