2023 Best Value Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in the Far Western US Region

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 in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager is the 488th most popular major in the country with 1,380 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 289 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 in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools in the Far Western US Region.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in the Far Western US Region

1

Cerritos College
Norwalk, California

#1 in overall quality

$2,310 Average Net Price

$46,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cerritos College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools in the Far Western US Region. Norwalk, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

Cerritos College also made our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Cerritos College is $2,310 for Far Western US Region Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager students.

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2

Los Angeles Trade Technical College
Los Angeles, California

#2 in overall quality

$9,346 Average Net Price

$32,174 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Los Angeles Trade Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Los Angeles Trade Technical College is a medium-sized school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 5 ’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager degrees in 2020-2021.

Los Angeles Trade Technical College also made our “Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Los Angeles Trade Technical College is $9,346 for Far Western US Region 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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