2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Maine

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine” 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 130,328 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $18,795 and had an average of $12,190 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 381 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,514 and $10,242 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in personal and culinary services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in personal and culinary services.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree personal & culinary services students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Maine

1

York County Community College
Wells, Maine

#13 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York County Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine. This small school is located in Wells, Maine, and it awarded 5 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at York County Community College

2

Eastern Maine Community College
Bangor, Maine

#18 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Maine Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine list. Bangor, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Eastern Maine Community College

3

Central Maine Community College
Auburn, Maine

#17 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Maine Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine list. Central Maine Technical College is a small school located in Auburn, Maine that handed out 4 associates’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Central Maine Technical College

4

Southern Maine Community College
South Portland, Maine

#16 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in South Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified associates’s personal and culinary services students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at SMCC

5

Kennebec Valley Community College
Fairfield, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kennebec Valley Community College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Maine. Kennebec Valley Community College is a public institution located in Fairfield, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Kennebec Valley Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the New England Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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