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

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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

For this year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer 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 Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students.

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

#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 that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Delhi landed the #1 spot on the list. SUNY Delhi is a small public school situated in Delhi, New York. It awarded 15 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 list, SUNY Delhi has also earned the #2 rank 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.

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#2

SUNY Cobleskill

Cobleskill, New York
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cobleskill. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. SUNY Cobleskill is a public institution located in Cobleskill, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SUNY Cobleskill not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $16,647 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend SUNY Cobleskill.

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#3

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York
#1 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 that were part of this year’s ranking, Culinary Institute of America landed the #3 spot on the list. Hyde Park, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to 39 students in 2019-2020.

The Culinary Institute of America also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Culinary Institute of America is $28,546 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

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#4

Lackawanna College

Scranton, Pennsylvania
#7 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lackawanna College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Lackawanna College is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students list, Lackawanna College has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $18,120 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend Lackawanna College.

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#5

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Penn College is a small public school situated in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

Penn College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Pennsylvania College of Technology is $25,794 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

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#3 in overall quality

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Paul Smith’s College is located in Paul Smiths, New York and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Paul Smith’s College, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is $23,784 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

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#7

Point Park University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

Point Park University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. 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 took the #4 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Point Park University is $21,470 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students.

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#8 in overall quality

The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.

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. It costs about $32,698 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend 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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