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2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$16,944 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,607 Avg Salary

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

Personal & Culinary Services is the #31 most popular major in the country with 130,328 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the New England Region to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for personal and culinary services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region

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

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Personal & Culinary Services

#1

FINE Mortuary College

Norwood, MA

Our 2023 rankings named FINE Mortuary College the best value school in the New England Region for personal and culinary services students working on their associate degree. Located in the suburb of Norwood, FINE Mortuary College is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

FINE Mortuary College undergraduate students pay an average of $20,945 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at FINE Mortuary College

#2

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, ME

The excellent associate degree programs at Southern Maine Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal and culinary services schools in the New England Region . Located in the small city of South Portland, SMCC is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SMCC are $6,754 a year.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Southern Maine Community College

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Shore Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Danvers, North Shore Community College is a public college with a small student population.

North Shore Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $10,920 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, North Shore Community College also is in the top 15% of our Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at North Shore Community College

#4

Bristol Community College

Fall River, MA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Bristol Community College is a great value for personal and culinary services students working on their associate degree. Bristol is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of Fall River.

Bristol undergraduate students pay an average of $10,152 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 5 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the # 5 spot on the list. JWU Providence is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Providence.

JWU Providence undergraduate students pay an average of $35,950 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Best Personal & Culinary Services Colleges by State

Explore the best personal and culinary services schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 17
Maine 24
Rhode Island 400
Massachusetts 104
Connecticut 44

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.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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