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Most Popular Schools for Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to serve under the supervision of chefs and other food service professionals as kitchen support staff and commercial food preparation workers. Includes instruction in kitchen organization and operations, sanitation and quality control, basic food preparation and cooking skills, kitchen and kitchen equipment maintenance, and quantity food measurement and monitoring.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Delgado Community College 154 4% $6,079
2 South Georgia Technical College 77 6% $7,148
3 Central Georgia Technical College 75 2% $4,378
4 Savannah Technical College 63 2% $4,044
5 Southern Crescent Technical College 49 2% $5,842
6 Atlanta Technical College 46 2% $4,120
7 Augusta Technical College 45 2% $4,794
8 Elgin Community College 41 2% $4,679
9 Kansas City Kansas Community College 39 3% $20,342
10 Joliet Junior College 33 1% $5,880
11 Mountainland Technical College 30 2% $1,692
12 Sinclair Community College 28 0% $3,830
13 Fox Valley Technical College 28 1% $6,525
14 Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center 27 23% N/A
15 West Georgia Technical College 26 1% $4,085
16 Wiregrass Georgia Technical College 26 1% $4,070
17 Columbus Technical College 24 2% $4,551
18 Western Technical College 23 1% $16,315
19 Commonwealth Technical Institute 23 14% $32,145
20 Iowa Western Community College 22 2% $19,166
21 Baldwin Park Adult & Community Education 21 11% N/A
22 Hennepin Technical College 20 1% $7,248
23 Cochise County Community College District 20 1% $13,903
24 Jna Institute of Culinary Arts 18 51% $16,465
25 Parkland College 18 1% $6,120
26 Chattahoochee Technical College 17 1% $3,866
27 Ogeechee Technical College 17 1% $3,600
28 Georgia Northwestern Technical College 16 0% $4,298
29 Bridgerland Technical College 13 2% N/A
30 Portland Community College 13 0% $6,029
31 Washburn Institute of Technology 12 1% $8,832
32 Southwestern Illinois College 12 0% $5,292
33 Saint Paul College 11 1% $6,761
34 ECPI University 11 0% $16,819
35 Lanier Technical College 10 0% $4,436
36 Gwinnett Technical College 10 0% $4,722
37 Nicolet Area Technical College 9 2% $6,004
38 Athens Technical College 9 1% $3,698
39 Ogden-Weber Technical College 9 1% N/A
40 Meridian Technology Center 8 2% N/A
41 Independence Community College 7 5% $12,250
42 Lakeshore Technical College 7 1% $6,207
43 Waukesha County Technical College 7 0% $6,365
44 Grayson College 6 1% $13,230
45 McHenry County College 6 0% $4,894
46 Coastal Pines Technical College 5 0% $3,298
47 Milwaukee Area Technical College 5 0% $7,039
48 Western Technology Center 5 3% N/A
49 North Georgia Technical College 5 1% $10,331
50 Kaskaskia College 3 0% $5,907
51 Employment Solutions-College for Technical Education 3 4% N/A
52 Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus 3 0% $12,990
53 North Central Kansas Technical College 3 1% $16,974
54 Washburn University 2 0% $22,056
55 Community College of Philadelphia 2 0% $6,542
56 Indian River State College 2 0% $3,764
57 Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute 1 1% $8,295
58 Spartanburg Community College 1 0% $5,934
59 City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College 1 0% $5,404
60 Gateway Technical College 1 0% $6,414
61 Edmonds Community College 1 0% $17,666
62 Southwest Wisconsin Technical College 1 0% $17,480
63 Phoenix College 1 0% $3,494
64 Massasoit Community College 1 0% $6,264
65 Mercer County Community College 1 0% $5,626

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant 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.