2025 Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

4 Colleges in the Southeast Region

148 Associate Degrees

an associate degree in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #153 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 148 associate degrees in restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality restaurant, culinary, and catering management/manager program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this 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 restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager 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 restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for restaurant, culinary, & catering management/manager students working on their associate degree.

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When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.