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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$20,376 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,147 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's 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. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for personal & culinary services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Check out the personal & culinary services bachelor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Personal & Culinary Services

Our analysis found University of Central Oklahoma to be the best value school for personal & culinary services students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in the Southwest Region . UCO is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Edmond.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UCO are $19,121 a year.

Full Personal & Culinary Services at University of Central Oklahoma Report

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means The Art Institute of Dallas is a great value for personal & culinary services students working on their bachelor’s degree. The Art Institute of Dallas is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Dallas.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at The Art Institute of Dallas are $20,794 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The Art Institute of San Antonio. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of San Antonio, Ai San Antonio is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Ai San Antonio are $20,794 a year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at The Art Institute of Houston helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal & culinary services schools in the Southwest Region . Ai Houston is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Houston.

Ai Houston undergraduate students pay an average of $20,794 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Personal & Culinary Services at The Art Institute of Houston Report

Best Personal & Culinary Services Colleges by State

Explore the best personal & culinary services schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 3,080
Texas 12,596
New Mexico 1,065
Oklahoma 1,910

Personal & Culinary Services Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
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
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 4 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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