Michigan contains sixteen schools that offer cooking programs. Michigan Career and Technical Institute, the highest-ranking cooking school in MI, has a total student population of 224 and is the 699th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 16 cooking schools in Michigan, only 8 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Michigan comes out as the most expensive ($36,230/yr), with Alpena Community College as the lowest recorded at only $1,805/yr.
Cooking students from Michigan schools who go on to become chefs, cooks, sous chefs, line cooks, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 94,300 people working as chefs and head cooks alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $44,240. Also, Cooks, private household make on average $27,720 per year and there are about 770 of them employed in the US today.
Also, within the cooking schools in Michigan, the average student population is 3,208 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from cooking, there are 6233 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,809 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $5,088, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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