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Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Missouri

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Missouri

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$5,173 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,389 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Associate Degree School for You

With 87 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, culinary arts is the #26 most popular major in Missouri.

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. 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.

The Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Missouri ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Missouri 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.


 

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Missouri

Check out the culinary arts associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

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

Our 2023 rankings named Ozarks Technical Community College the best value school in Missouri for culinary arts students working on their associate degree. Located in the city of Springfield, OTC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at OTC are $5,216 per year. While working on their Associate Degree, culinary arts majors at OTC accumulate an average of around $12,671 in student debt.

Full Culinary Arts at Ozarks Technical Community College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Saint Louis Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Culinary Arts Associate Degree Schools in Missouri list. Saint Louis Community College is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Bridgeton.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Saint Louis Community College are $5,130 a year. After completing their Associate Degree, culinary arts graduates from Saint Louis Community College carry an average student debtload of $9,079.

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Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Culinary Arts Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 96
Minnesota 125
South Dakota 3
Iowa 200
North Dakota 4
Nebraska 130

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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