an associate degree in personal & culinary services is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #15 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Iowa to determine which ones were the best for personal & culinary services students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 associate degrees in personal & culinary services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
DEBUG: relevant_offers > 0, checking for ESYOH offers
DEBUG: ESYOH filtering - found 1 ESYOH offers with relevance >= 0.5
DEBUG: esyoh_offers count = 1
DEBUG: ESYOH offers found, rendering ESYOH widget
DEBUG: most_relevant_only = true, filtering for most relevant
DEBUG: Found 0 offers with relevance >= 1.0
DEBUG: Backfilling with 0 offers with relevance >= 0.9
DEBUG: Backfilling with 1 offers with relevance >= 0.8
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for personal & culinary services students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Personal & Culinary Services Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in Iowa list, to help you choose the best school for you.
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "personal-and-culinary-services"
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
.jpg){kind=link}