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2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid

8 Ranked Colleges
150 Degrees Awarded
$22,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region 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 a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 13,104 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $17,843 and $10,818 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 150 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in personal and culinary services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality personal and culinary services programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)

#1

SUNY Delhi

Delhi, New York
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Delhi landed the #1 spot on the list. Delhi, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

SUNY Delhi also took the #2 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Delhi is $14,867 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students with aid.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at SUNY Delhi

#2

SUNY Cobleskill

Cobleskill, New York
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cobleskill. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Cobleskill, New York, this small public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students with aid list, SUNY Cobleskill has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $16,647 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid per year to attend SUNY Cobleskill.

Full SUNY Cobleskill Personal & Culinary Services Report

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Paul Smiths, New York, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students with aid list, Paul Smith’s College has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Paul Smith’s College is $23,784 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid.

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#4

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Culinary Institute of America. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid. Culinary Institute of America is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hyde Park, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

The Culinary Institute of America did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $28,546 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid per year to attend The Culinary Institute of America.

Full The Culinary Institute of America Personal & Culinary Services Report

#5

Point Park University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Point Park University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

Point Park also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for Point Park is $21,470 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students with aid.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Point Park University

#6

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania
#6 in overall quality

Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. Williamsport, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Penn College, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $25,794 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid per year to attend Penn College.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Pennsylvania College of Technology

#7

Lackawanna College

Scranton, Pennsylvania
#7 in overall quality

Lackawanna College did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #7. Lackawanna College is a small school located in Scranton, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

Lackawanna College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Lackawanna College is $18,120 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students with aid.

Full Lackawanna College Personal & Culinary Services Report

#8 in overall quality

The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid list. The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College is a small private for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 17 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #8. The yearly cost to attend The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College is $32,698 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students with aid.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill 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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