2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in New Jersey

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in New Jersey” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across New Jersey, there were 7 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 2 restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,217 and $15,066 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in New Jersey” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager. That schools that top this list have a program in restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in New Jersey”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in New Jersey

1

Raritan Valley Community College
Branchburg, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Raritan Valley Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in New Jersey list. RVCC is a public institution located in Branchburg, New Jersey. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Warren County Community College
Washington, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Warren County Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager Major in New Jersey list. Located in Washington, New Jersey, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Warren County Community College Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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