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2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

5 Ranked Colleges
123 Degrees Awarded
$31,225 Avg Salary
Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

Personal & Culinary Services is the 31st most popular major in the country with 119,853 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $17,656 and had an average of $12,064 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 14,205 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,327 and $12,386 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 123 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in personal and culinary services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great personal and culinary services programs and 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 personal and culinary services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Wayne State is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 24 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

Wayne State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Wayne State is $13,668 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Wayne State University

#2

Henry Ford College

Dearborn, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Henry Ford College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Dearborn, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

Henry Ford College also took the #4 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Henry Ford College is $5,633 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Full Henry Ford College Personal & Culinary Services Report

#3

National Louis University

Chicago, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Louis University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. National Louis University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 8 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

NLU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for National Louis University is $16,888 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Full NLU Personal & Culinary Services Report

#4

Baker College

Owosso, Michigan
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Baker College landed the #4 spot on the list. Baker College is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Owosso, Michigan. It awarded 1 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

Baker College also took the #5 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Baker College is $15,933 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Baker College Personal & Culinary Services Report

#5

Mid-America College of Funeral Service

Jeffersonville, Indiana
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mid-America College of Funeral Service. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. This small school is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

Mid-America College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mid-America College of Funeral Service is $23,036 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Mid-America College of Funeral Service

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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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