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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Oregon (With Aid)

5 Ranked Colleges
90 Degrees Awarded
$8,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Oregon, there were 1,031 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,009 and $13,484 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 90 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Oregon (With Aid)

#1

Mt. Hood Community College

Gresham, Oregon
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Mt. Hood Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mt. Hood Community College is located in Gresham, Oregon and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

MHCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $7,211 for oregon associate degree personal & culinary services students with aid per year to attend Mt. Hood Community College.

Full Mt. Hood Community College Personal & Culinary Services Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oregon Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Coos Bay, Oregon, this small public school awarded 32 diplomas to qualified associates’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

SWOCC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southwestern Oregon Community College is $8,892 for Oregon Associate Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Southwestern Oregon Community College

#3

Lane Community College

Eugene, Oregon
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lane Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid list. Lane Community College is located in Eugene, Oregon and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Lane Community College, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. It costs about $8,553 for Oregon Associate Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid per year to attend Lane Community College.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Lane Community College

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Oregon Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid. Located in Bend, Oregon, this small public school handed out 17 degrees to qualified associates’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

COCC also took the #3 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. It costs about $10,504 for Oregon Associate Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid per year to attend Central Oregon Community College.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Central Oregon Community College

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Linn-Benton Community College landed the #5 spot on the list. LBCC is located in Albany, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

LBCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” list. The yearly cost to attend Linn-Benton Community College is $9,102 for Oregon Associate Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Linn-Benton Community College

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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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