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2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$3,629 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$20,089 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Culinary Arts is the #13 most popular major in Mississippi with 320 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi

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

Best Mississippi Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Culinary Arts

Our 2023 rankings named Meridian Community College the best value school in Mississippi for culinary arts students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in the town of Meridian, MCC is a public school with a small student population.

MCC undergraduate students pay an average of $3,811 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Culinary Arts at Meridian Community College Report

The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Holmes Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value culinary arts schools in Mississippi. Holmes Community College is a small public school located in the rural area of Goodman.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Holmes Community College are $3,510 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Holmes Community College is ranked #4 for overall quality for culinary arts in Mississippi.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Holmes Community College

Out of the 3 schools in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, East Central Community College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the rural area of Decatur, East Central Community College is a public college with a small student population.

East Central Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $3,565 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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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
Georgia 864
South Carolina 215
Arkansas 283
North Carolina 811
Florida 1,298
West Virginia 59
Louisiana 367
Virginia 357
Alabama 94
Kentucky 359
Tennessee 104

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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