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2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$4,647 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$28,144 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Culinary Arts School for You

With 106 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, culinary arts is the #106 most popular major in Wisconsin.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in Wisconsin to see which ones offered the best value programs for culinary arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges.

Best Wisconsin Schools for Affordable Quality in Culinary Arts

$4,568 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Chippewa Valley Technical College the best value school in Wisconsin for culinary arts students. Located in the city of Eau Claire, CVTC is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at CVTC are $4,568 a year.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Chippewa Valley Technical College

$4,600 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Madison Area Technical College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best culinary arts schools in Wisconsin. Located in the large city of Madison, Madison College is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Madison College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,600 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their degree, culinary arts graduates from Madison College carry an average student debtload of $12,588.

Madison College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin list.

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$4,488 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Waukesha County Technical College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best culinary arts schools in Wisconsin. Located in the large suburb of Pewaukee, WCTC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

WCTC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,488 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$4,688 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 6 schools in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Gateway Technical College landed the # 4 spot on the list. Gateway Technical College is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of Kenosha.

Gateway Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,688 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Gateway Technical College

$4,746 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Fox Valley Technical College. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin list. FVTC is a large public school located in the midsize suburb of Appleton.

FVTC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,746 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, FVTC also did well on our Best Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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$4,793 Average Tuition & Fees

Milwaukee Area Technical College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in Wisconsin ranking. MATC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at MATC are $4,793 a year. While working on their degree, culinary arts majors at MATC accumulate an average of around $20,109 in student debt.

Full Culinary Arts at Milwaukee Area Technical College Report

Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 228
Ohio 133
Illinois 253
Indiana 12

One of 4 majors within the area of study, culinary arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Cosmetology 107,895
Funeral & Mortuary Science 2,354
Casino Operations and Services 192
Other Personal & Culinary Services 81

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Army Europe Images.

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