2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 130,328 people earned a degree or certificate in personal and culinary services, making the major the #31 most popular in the United States.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.
The Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 22 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for personal and culinary services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Top 10 Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Universidad del Este to be the best value school for personal and culinary services students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in the United States. UNE is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Carolina.
UNE undergraduate students pay an average of $5,820 in tuition and fees each year.
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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 Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools list. NLU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
NLU undergraduate students pay an average of $14,169 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools list. UMN Twin Cities is a very large public school located in the large city of Minneapolis.
UMN Twin Cities undergraduate students pay an average of $33,818 in tuition and fees each year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, UMN Twin Cities also did well on our Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Culinary Institute of America helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal and culinary services schools in the United States. Located in the large suburb of Hyde Park, The Culinary Institute of America is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at The Culinary Institute of America are $35,550 per year.
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Out of the 22 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Mid-America College of Funeral Service landed the # 5 spot on the list. Mid-America College is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Jeffersonville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Mid-America College are $16,960 a year.
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Nicholls State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for personal and culinary services students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Nicholls State University is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Thibodaux.
Nicholls State University undergraduate students pay an average of $9,039 in tuition and fees each year.
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SUNY Delhi came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the remote town of Delhi, SUNY Delhi is a public school with a small student population.
SUNY Delhi undergraduate students pay an average of $12,410 in tuition and fees each year.
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University of Central Oklahoma came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the large suburb of Edmond, UCO is a public school with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UCO are $18,917 per year.
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Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the large suburb of Cincinnati, Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science are $23,000 per year.
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The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value bachelor’s degree personal and culinary services programs. The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.
The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College undergraduate students pay an average of $23,550 in tuition and fees each year.
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Majors Related to Personal & Culinary Services
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 |
Most Popular Majors Related 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 22 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.