2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services

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 Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 119,853 people earned their degree in personal and culinary services, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. 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.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

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. 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 a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree personal & culinary services students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Master’s. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified masters’s personal and culinary services students in 2019-2020.

Boston U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boston University are $57,666.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Boston U

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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