2023 Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools
Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services School for You
With 130,306 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, personal and 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 Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 2,073 schools in the United States to see which programs were the most popular for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Personal & Culinary Services program at each school on the list.
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2023 Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Schools in the United States
Check out the personal and culinary services programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in the United States.
Top 25 Most Popular Trade Schools in Personal & Culinary Services
Our 2023 rankings named National University College the most popular school in the United States for personal and culinary services students. National University College is a very large private for-profit school located in the midsize city of Bayamon.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Boulder. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Boulder, Escoffier - Boulder is a private for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute, Covington. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Located in the small suburb of Covington, Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute, Covington is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Christine Valmy International School for Esthetics, Skin Care & Makeup is a great place for personal and culinary services students. Located in the large city of New York, Christine Valmy International School is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
The excellent programs at Culinary Institute of America helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best personal and culinary services schools in the United States. The Culinary Institute of America is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Hyde Park.
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With a ranking of #6, Douglas J Aveda Institute did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. Douglas J Aveda Institute is a small private for-profit school located in the city of East Lansing.
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With a ranking of #7, Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences-Summerlin did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences-Summerlin is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Las Vegas.
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Evergreen Beauty and Barber College-Everett came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools ranking. Located in the city of Everett, Evergreen Beauty and Barber College-Everett is a private for-profit school with a small student population.
Celebrity School of Beauty did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. It came in at #9 on the list. Celebrity School of Beauty is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Miami.
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Advance Beauty College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. It came in at #10 on the list. Advance Beauty College is a small private for-profit school located in the suburb of Garden Grove.
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With a ranking of #11, Aveda Institute - Tallahassee did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. Located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee, Aveda Institute - Tallahassee is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
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Studio Academy of Beauty came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools ranking. Studio Academy of Beauty is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Chandler.
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Ogle School Hair Skin Nails-Stafford ranked #13 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Ogle School is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Stafford.
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La Belle Beauty Academy landed the #14 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular personal and culinary services programs. Located in the suburb of Miami, La Belle Beauty Academy is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
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Aveda Institute - South Florida landed the #15 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular personal and culinary services programs. Aveda Institute - South Florida is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Davie.
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Olympian Academy of Cosmetology ranked #16 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Located in the town of Alamogordo, Olympian Academy of Cosmetology is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
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Johnson & Wales University - Providence ranked #17 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. JWU Providence is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Providence.
Boca Beauty Academy did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. It came in at #18 on the list. Boca Beauty Academy is a small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Boca Raton.
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Asian-American International Beauty College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. It came in at #19 on the list. Located in the suburb of Westminster, Asian-American International Beauty College is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
G Skin & Beauty Institute ranked #20 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Located in the small city of West Dundee, G Skin and Beauty Institute is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
Valencia College came in at #21 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools ranking. Located in the city of Orlando, Valencia College is a public college with a fairly large student population.
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Ogle School Hair Skin Nails-San Antonio did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for personal and culinary services students. It came in at #22 on the list. Ogle School is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of San Antonio.
Institute of Culinary Education ranked #23 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Institute of Culinary Education is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large city of New York.
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Bellus Academy - Poway ranked #24 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Located in the small city of Poway, Bellus Academy is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
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South Hills Beauty Academy Inc ranked #25 on this year’s Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools list. Located in the suburb of Pittsburgh, South Hills Beauty Academy Inc is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
Rest of the Top 50 Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools
Additional Award Winners
This list shows the remainder of the colleges awarded a Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools badge. Showing in this list means the college was ranked in the top 15% of the 2073 different United States personal and culinary services schools we analyzed.
Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional popular schools for Personal & Culinary Services students that almost earned our Most Popular Personal & Culinary Services Trade Schools award.
Personal & Culinary Services by Region
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Personal & Culinary Services Related Majors
Personal & Culinary Services Majors to Study
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Cosmetology | 107,895 |
Culinary Arts | 19,784 |
Funeral & Mortuary Science | 2,354 |
Casino Operations and Services | 192 |
Other Personal & Culinary Services | 81 |
Majors Similar to Personal & Culinary Services
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Mechanic & Repair Technologies | 96,307 |
Precision Production | 52,905 |
Construction Trades | 35,794 |
Transportation & Materials Moving | 28,383 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 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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