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2023 Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois

5 Colleges
$26,607 Avg Salary
$17,648 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree School for You

With 380 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, personal and culinary services is the #32 most popular major in Illinois.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best associate degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for personal and culinary services majors pursuing a associate degree.

Top Illinois Schools for an Associate in Personal & Culinary Services

Our 2023 rankings named Worsham College of Mortuary Science the best school in Illinois for personal and culinary services students working on their associate degree. Worsham College of Mortuary Science is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Wheeling.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend National Louis University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large city of Chicago, NLU is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

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#3

Joliet Junior College

Joliet, IL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Joliet Junior College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois list. Joliet Junior College is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Joliet.

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#4

Carl Sandburg College

Galesburg, IL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Carl Sandburg College. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the rural area of Galesburg, Carl Sandburg College is a public school with a small student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend City Colleges of Chicago - Kennedy-King College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Illinois list. Kennedy-King College is a small public school located in the city of Chicago.

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Best Personal & Culinary Services Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Personal & Culinary Services Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 103
Michigan 266
Ohio 238
Wisconsin 128

Personal & Culinary Services Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Cosmetology 107,895
Culinary Arts 19,806
Funeral & Mortuary Science 2,354
Casino Operations and Services 192
Other Personal & Culinary Services 81

Majors Similar to Personal & Culinary Services

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanic & Repair Technologies 96,336
Precision Production 52,913
Construction Trades 35,794
Transportation & Materials Moving 29,084

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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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