2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College

$4,945 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Basic Certificate 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 Basic Certificate 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.

Best Culinary Arts Basic Certificate School

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry

Dover, DE

2 Basic Certificates

#1 in Quality in Delaware

$4,945 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Delaware Technical Community College - Terry to be the best value school for culinary arts students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Delaware. Delaware Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Dover.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Delaware Tech are $4,945 per year.

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.

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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).
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