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2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$19,245 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,760 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's 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.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Southwest Region 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.

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 Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Personal & Culinary Services

Our analysis found University of Central Oklahoma to be the best value school for personal and culinary services students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in the Southwest Region . UCO is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Edmond.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UCO are $18,917 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of Dallas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. The Art Institute of Dallas is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Dallas.

The Art Institute of Dallas undergraduate students pay an average of $19,354 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at The Art Institute of San Antonio helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal and culinary services schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the city of San Antonio, Ai San Antonio is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Ai San Antonio are $19,354 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of Houston. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Ai Houston is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Houston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Ai Houston are $19,354 a year.

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Best Personal & Culinary Services Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 132
Texas 1,155
New Mexico 76
Oklahoma 45

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

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 4 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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