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Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$19,747 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Basic Certificate School for You

Culinary Arts is the #11 most popular major in the country with 22,075 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to see which basic certificate 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.

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 New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Culinary Arts

Our analysis found North Shore Community College to be the best value school for culinary arts students who want to pursue a basic certificate in the New England Region . Located in the suburb of Danvers, North Shore Community College is a public college with a small student population.

North Shore Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $10,920 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Bristol Community College

Fall River, MA

The excellent basic certificate programs at Bristol Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value culinary arts schools in the New England Region . Bristol is a medium-sized public school located in the large suburb of Fall River.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Bristol are $10,224 a year.

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Out of the 3 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the # 3 spot on the list. JWU Providence is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Providence.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at JWU Providence are $38,096 a year.

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Best Culinary Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best culinary arts colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 97
Maine 29
Connecticut 151
Rhode Island 403
New Hampshire 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

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 averages are for the top 3 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.

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