by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Pennsylvania, there were 3,899 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,725 and $14,096 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania list. This small school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Point Park University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s personal and culinary services students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Point Park University
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Lackawanna College landed the #3 spot on the list. Lackawanna College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Lackawanna College
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Gannon University landed the #4 spot on the list. Gannon University is located in Erie, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at Gannon University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania list. Located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s personal and culinary services students in 2020-2021.
Full Pennsylvania College of Technology Personal & Culinary Services Report
Drexel University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania list. Drexel University is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 9 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Drexel University
Delaware Valley University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Pennsylvania list. Delaware Valley University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Delaware Valley University Personal & Culinary Services Report
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