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Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Delaware

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$4,945 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,389 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree School for You

With 30 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, culinary arts is the #15 most popular major in Delaware.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.


 

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree School

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware Technical Community College - Terry the best value school in Delaware for culinary arts students working on their associate degree. Delaware Tech is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Dover.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Delaware Tech are $4,945 a year. After completing their Associate Degree, culinary arts graduates from Delaware Tech carry an average student debtload of $7,500.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Delaware Tech is ranked #1 for overall quality for culinary arts in Delaware.

Full Culinary Arts at Delaware Technical Community College - Terry Report

Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 1,514
Pennsylvania 327
New Jersey 167
Maryland 153

One of 4 majors within the trade school area of study, culinary arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Culinary Arts Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Culinary Arts/Chef Training 10,546
Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef 5,029
General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts 3,303
Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager 1,394
Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant 786
Other Culinary Arts & Related Services 335
Institutional Food Workers 204
Culinary Science/Culinology 203
Bartending/Bartender 157
Food Service, Waiter/Waitress, & Dining Room Management/Manager 82
Meat Cutting/Meat Cutter 28
Wine Steward/Sommelier 8

Majors Similar to Culinary Arts

Related Major Annual Graduates
Cosmetology 124,611
Funeral & Mortuary Science 2,186
Casino Operations and Services 385
Other Personal & Culinary Services 95

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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