2025 Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Texas
6Colleges in Texas
359Associate Degrees
Culinary Arts/Chef Training is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #38 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Texas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 359 associate degrees in culinary arts/chef training during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Culinary Arts/Chef Training School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of culinary arts/chef training for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on culinary arts/chef training students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of culinary arts/chef training students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized culinary arts/chef training related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for culinary arts/chef training students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Culinary Arts/Chef Training Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Texas ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of culinary arts/chef training for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
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