If you plan on getting your associate degree in personal & culinary services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #15 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 85 associate degrees in personal & culinary services to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to personal & culinary services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other personal & culinary services students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for personal & culinary services to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized personal & culinary services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for personal & culinary services students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Personal & Culinary Services Schools
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 Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas list to help you make the college 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
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