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Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Colorado

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$4,065 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,389 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree School for You

Culinary Arts is the most popular major in Colorado with 2,756 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022.

There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.

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 Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Colorado to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for culinary arts students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. 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.

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

Best Colorado Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Culinary Arts

#1

Pikes Peak Community College

Colorado Springs, CO

Our 2023 rankings named Pikes Peak Community College the best value school in Colorado for culinary arts students working on their associate degree. PPCC is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Colorado Springs.

PPCC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,065 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Boulder. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Colorado list. Located in the medium-sized city of Boulder, Escoffier - Boulder is a private for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

After completing their Associate Degree, culinary arts graduates from Escoffier - Boulder carry an average student debtload of $15,323. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $224.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 157
Idaho 26
Montana 21
Wyoming 17

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

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 averages are for the top 2 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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