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Most Popular Schools for Culinary Arts/Chef Training Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to provide professional chef and related cooking services in restaurants and other commercial food establishments. Includes instruction in recipe and menu planning, preparing and cooking of foods, supervising and training kitchen assistants, the management of food supplies and kitchen resources, aesthetics of food presentation, and familiarity or mastery of a wide variety of cuisines and culinary techniques.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Culinary Institute of America 760 52% $48,180
2 Johnson & Wales University-Providence 503 18% $50,454
3 Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Boulder 425 91% N/A
4 Lake Land College 380 11% $4,470
5 The International Culinary Center 273 53% N/A
6 Institute of Culinary Education 252 48% N/A
7 Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin 196 75% N/A
8 Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte 186 30% $49,740
9 El Centro College 184 12% $3,770
10 Baton Rouge Community College 165 6% $5,521
11 ECPI University 153 4% $16,819
12 Johnson & Wales University-Denver 136 34% $48,429
13 West Kentucky Community and Technical College 135 4% $5,248
14 City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College 127 17% $5,404
15 Trident Technical College 121 5% $6,551
16 Institute of Technology 112 15% N/A
17 Stratford University 111 15% $15,135
18 Johnson & Wales University-North Miami 106 27% $48,429
19 Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College 101 4% $5,248
20 Helms College 100 87% $14,117
21 St Philip's College 93 4% $4,311
22 National Louis University 86 5% $31,050
23 The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College 86 51% $39,938
24 SOWELA Technical Community College 85 4% $5,385
25 Guilford Technical Community College 81 4% $3,709
26 Sullivan University 80 6% $29,044
27 Arizona Culinary Institute 80 100% $26,795
28 Texas State Technical College 80 2% $19,530
29 Valencia College 79 1% $3,740
30 International Culinary Center-California 79 53% N/A
31 College of Southern Nevada 78 2% $4,667
32 Lee College 78 3% $3,543
33 International Air and Hospitality Academy 78 16% N/A
34 New England Culinary Institute 76 53% $40,221
35 Virginia College-Birmingham 76 11% $12,250
36 Wake Technical Community College 69 1% $4,268
37 Coastal Carolina Community College 69 4% $4,357
38 Grand Rapids Community College 67 3% $4,743
39 Ponce Paramedical College Inc 66 11% N/A
40 Metro Technology Centers 64 9% N/A
41 Miami Dade College 63 1% $4,338
42 The Culinary School of Fort Worth 63 100% N/A
43 Pioneer Pacific College 62 10% $13,338
44 Tarrant County College District 62 1% $3,266
45 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Carolina Campus 60 3% $7,520
46 Lincoln Technical Institute-Shelton 59 19% N/A
47 Virginia College-Jacksonville 59 14% $18,100
48 Monroe College 58 2% $31,278
49 Des Moines Area Community College 57 2% $14,992
50 Nicholls State University 56 4% $23,118
51 Louisiana Culinary Institute 56 90% $17,575
52 Henry Ford College 55 4% $4,636
53 Brookdale Community College 55 3% $6,869
54 Schoolcraft College 55 3% $5,332
55 Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale 54 1% $22,208
56 University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College 54 4% $6,052
57 Western Iowa Tech Community College 53 3% $14,325
58 Cuyahoga Community College District 53 1% $5,136
59 Ashland Community and Technical College 52 2% $5,248
60 Houston Community College 50 1% $3,882
61 Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus 50 2% $28,595
62 The Art Institute of Houston 50 17% $19,068
63 Virginia College-Baton Rouge 50 16% $12,586
64 Southwestern Oregon Community College 49 7% $16,943
65 Joliet Junior College 48 2% $5,880
66 SUNY College of Technology at Delhi 48 5% $24,270
67 Atlantic Technical College 47 7% N/A
68 Platt College-OKC-Memorial 47 36% N/A
69 Virginia College-Richmond 47 22% $4,480
70 Community College of Philadelphia 46 2% $6,542
71 Richland Community College 46 4% $5,730
72 Niagara County Community College 45 5% $6,423
73 The Art Institute of Atlanta 45 14% $18,996
74 Lenoir Community College 44 4% $4,358
75 Ozarks Technical Community College 44 2% $4,192
76 San Diego Culinary Institute 44 68% N/A
77 Scottsdale Community College 43 3% $3,494
78 Utah Valley University 43 1% $6,450
79 Montgomery County Community College 42 3% $13,860
80 William T McFatter Technical College 42 6% $2,465
81 San Jacinto Community College 41 1% $3,114
82 Instituto de Banca y Comercio Inc 41 1% N/A
83 Academia Serrant Inc 40 17% N/A
84 Central Piedmont Community College 39 1% $4,429
85 Southern New Hampshire University 39 0% $51,538
86 Delaware Technical Community College-Terry 39 2% $6,504
87 College of DuPage 39 1% $5,464
88 Schenectady County Community College 38 7% $6,144
89 Baker College 38 1% $21,000
90 Macomb Community College 38 1% $5,015
91 Hudson County Community College 37 4% $7,218
92 Sandhills Community College 37 5% $4,598
93 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla 37 5% $7,274
94 Fayetteville Technical Community College 37 1% $3,964
95 Lawson State Community College 37 5% $14,800
96 Greenville Technical College 36 2% $5,780
97 Suffolk County Community College 36 1% $7,292
98 Suncoast Technical College 36 5% N/A
99 Sheridan Technical College 36 4% N/A
100 University of Antelope Valley 36 7% N/A

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Culinary Arts/Chef Training program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.