2025 Best Culinary Arts/Chef Training Associate Degree Schools in Missouri
2Colleges in Missouri
56Associate Degrees
Ranked #38 in popularity, culinary arts/chef training is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for culinary arts/chef training students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 56 associate degrees in culinary arts/chef training during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 Missouri 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).