2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Culinary Arts

CULINARY ARTS DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

It's quite unique to find an undergrad student studying culinary arts. The standard major gives out 6,156 undergraduate degrees per annum; 875 people last year received a bachelor's degree in culinary arts, making it the United States' 224th most popular subject. 158 of those degrees were conferred by Johnson & Wales University-Providence, which boasts having the biggest program in the nation. 158 of those degrees were earned at institutions in Rhode Island.

50 institutions across the country offer undergraduate degrees in culinary arts; ergo, picking the best program for you likely isn't easy. Undergraduate degrees in culinary arts are 73.9% less universally available than the average major, making it the 278th most universally offered American major.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 97% of last spring's degrees in culinary arts were four-year degrees; 3% were postgrad degrees. Culinary arts is the 355th most popular grad degree in America, with 31 degrees awarded. For some context, culinary arts is 99% less popular among postgraduate students than the average subject.

In Total, 906 students received a bachelor's or higher in culinary arts last year.

ONLINE CULINARY ARTS DEGREES

28 of those 906 graduates (3.1%) completed their school work remotely, but not one completed a postgraduate degree. As you've presumably gathered by now, not many college students choose to study culinary arts online. It is the 177th most popular remote major, and 94.2% south of the national average of 481 students per course of study.

Mid-America College of Funeral Service​ conferred 11 online four-year degrees, more than any other American college. Last fall, 77 undergraduates were attending the college totally online, 66% of their students. They offer 2 totally remote areas of study. That's 100% of their courses.

Moreover, Colleges from Indiana conferred the most online undergrad degrees in culinary arts last May (11). On its own, Indiana accounts for 39% of the focus' online students.

Only 3.2% of all bachelor's degrees in culinary arts are completed remote, (0% for grad degrees). SUNY College of Technology at Delhi's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of online culinary arts majors in the nation (1.34%). 6 students in their 485 student class earned an online undergraduate degree in culinary arts. They offer 42% of their programs remote, and had 721 enrolled online undergraduate students last fall. That's 24% of the student body.

Four-year degrees in culinary arts are offered online at 8 colleges nationwide, making it the 278th most commonly offered remote American degree. 16% of institutions giving out the degree even have a remote option, and more or less 50% of the schools granting the degree online are private.

If you would like to study culinary arts comprehensively online, you may want to consider applying to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, as it has the 10th best culinary arts program in the USA. They also have an additional 29 degrees remotely, so their systems are likely solid. Furthermore, they have 1,534 online undergraduates, which is 18% of the undergraduate population.

PARTIALLY ONLINE CULINARY ARTS DEGREES

• 157 students last May were granted an undergraduate degree in culinary arts partially online
• 30 schools coast-to-coast grant an undergrad degree in culinary arts partially online
• 17.94% of all bachelor's degree in culinary arts are completed partially online
• 2.85% of Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science's​ last undergraduate class majored in culinary arts partially online, higher than any other US institution
• Last May, 31 students earned graduate degrees in culinary arts partially online
• 6.45% of all grad degrees in culinary arts are done partially online

IN-PERSON CULINARY ARTS DEGREES

• 684 people last May completed bachelor's degrees in culinary arts fully in-person
• Culinary arts is the 147th most commonly offered in-person college degree coast-to-coast
• 78.17% of all college degree in culinary arts are done in-person
• Johnson & Wales University-Providence​ awarded more exclusively in-person four-year degrees in culinary arts than any other US institution (137)
• Last May, 29 students earned grad degrees in culinary arts in-person
• 93.55% of all advanced degrees in culinary arts are earned comprehensively in-person