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Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in Louisiana

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in Louisiana

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$4,679 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Basic Certificate School for You

With 367 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, culinary arts is the #15 most popular major in Louisiana.

With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

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 Louisiana to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Louisiana 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.


 

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Basic Certificate Schools in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for culinary arts majors pursuing a basic certificate.

Best Louisiana Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Culinary Arts

#1

Delgado Community College

New Orleans, LA

Our 2023 rankings named Delgado Community College the best value school in Louisiana for culinary arts students working on their basic certificate. Delgado Community College is a large public school located in the large city of New Orleans.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Delgado Community College are $4,679 per year.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Delgado Community College

Out of the 2 schools in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Crescent City Bartending School landed the # 2 spot on the list. Crescent Schools is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of New Orleans.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Crescent City Bartending School

Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
South Carolina 215
Georgia 864
Arkansas 283
North Carolina 811
Florida 1,298
Virginia 357
West Virginia 59
Tennessee 104
Alabama 94
Kentucky 359
Mississippi 320

Culinary Arts is one of 4 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Culinary Arts Concentrations

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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