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Best Value Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota

2023 Best Value Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$6,318 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$20,089 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Culinary Arts is the #21 most popular major in Minnesota with 125 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

It's not easy to decide which trade school program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

The Best Value Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.


 

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Culinary Arts Undergraduate Certificate School

#1

Saint Paul College

Saint Paul, MN

Our analysis found Saint Paul College to be the best value school for culinary arts students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Minnesota. Saint Paul College is a medium-sized public school located in the large city of Saint Paul.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Saint Paul College are $6,318 a year. The average amount in student loans that culinary arts majors at Saint Paul College take out while working on their Undergraduate Certificate is $8,369.

Read full report on Culinary Arts at Saint Paul College

Best Value Culinary Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 96
Missouri 87
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 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Army Europe Images.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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