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Personal & Culinary Services at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

15% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you plan to study personal and culinary services, take a look at what Southern Illinois University Carbondale has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and has a total student population of 11,366.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Personal & Culinary Services section at the bottom of this page.

SIUC Personal & Culinary Services Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Personal & Culinary Services

Online Classes Are Available at SIUC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, SIUC does offer online courses in personal and culinary services for the following degree levels:

Bachelor’s Degree

SIUC Personal & Culinary Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the personal and culinary services progam at SIUC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The personal and culinary services major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Personal & Culinary Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Online Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	2
Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	8
Most Focused Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	23
Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Trade Schools	510
Most Focused Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Trade Schools	510
Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools	1,368

Personal & Culinary Services Student Demographics at SIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the personal and culinary services majors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

SIUC Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Program

80% Women

15% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

Of the 20 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Personal & Culinary Services from SIUC in 2020-2021, 20% were men and 80% were women. The typical personal and culinary services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 14% men. So male students are more repesented at SIUC since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 85% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in personal and culinary services at SIUC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in personal and culinary services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SIUC also has a doctoral program available in personal and culinary services. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Personal & Culinary Services

If you plan to be a personal and culinary services major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Funeral & Mortuary Science	20

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Careers That Personal & Culinary Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in personal and culinary services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Restaurant Cooks	48,660	$27,720
Bartenders	28,570	$24,280
Food Preparation and Serving Worker Supervisors	28,330	$32,490
Institution and Cafeteria Cooks	19,960	$27,550
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists	15,790	$29,900

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

College Factual
National Center for Education Statistics
O*NET Online
Image Credit: By Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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