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2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree School for You
With 149,352 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, personal & culinary services is the #2 most popular major in the United States.
Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the New England Region to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for personal & culinary services 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 Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for personal & culinary services majors pursuing a associate degree.
Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Personal & Culinary Services
Our 2023 rankings named FINE Mortuary College the best value school in the New England Region for personal & culinary services students working on their associate degree. Located in the large suburb of Norwood, FINE Mortuary College is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
FINE Mortuary College undergraduate students pay an average of $20,945 in tuition and fees each year.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Southern Maine Community College is a great value for personal & culinary services students working on their associate degree. Located in the city of South Portland, SMCC is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SMCC are $6,677 a year.
Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Southern Maine Community College
The excellent associate degree programs at North Shore Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal & culinary services schools in the New England Region . Located in the suburb of Danvers, North Shore Community College is a public school with a small student population.
North Shore Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $10,920 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, North Shore Community College also is in the top 15% of our Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Trade Schools in the New England Region ranking.
Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at North Shore Community College
Out of the 5 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bristol Community College landed the # 4 spot on the list. Bristol is a moderately-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.
Full Personal & Culinary Services at Bristol Community College Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson & Wales University - Providence. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region list. JWU Providence is a small private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Providence.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at JWU Providence are $38,096 per year.
Best Personal & Culinary Services Colleges by State
Explore the best personal & culinary services schools for a specific state in the New England region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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New Hampshire | 410 |
Connecticut | 708 |
Maine | 381 |
Rhode Island | 584 |
Massachusetts | 1,897 |
Vermont | 61 |
Personal & Culinary Services Related Majors for Personal & Culinary Services
Personal & Culinary Services Majors to Study
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Cosmetology | 124,611 |
Culinary Arts | 22,075 |
Funeral & Mortuary Science | 2,186 |
Casino Operations and Services | 385 |
Other Personal & Culinary Services | 95 |
Majors Similar to Personal & Culinary Services
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Mechanic & Repair Technologies | 105,741 |
Precision Production | 55,411 |
Construction Trades | 40,802 |
Transportation & Materials Moving | 33,306 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 5 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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