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Cooking Schools in New Mexico

New Mexico contains seven schools that offer cooking programs. Navajo Technical College, the highest-ranking cooking school in NM, has a total student population of 751 and is the 1715th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 7 cooking schools in New Mexico, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Central New Mexico Community College comes out as the most expensive ($10,387/yr), with Navajo Technical College as the lowest recorded at only $2,488/yr.

Cooking students from New Mexico 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 New Mexico, the average student population is 2,774 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from cooking, there are 1598 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,262 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $1,963, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Cooking Programs in New Mexico

• Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

• Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant
  

  Levels offered: Certificate

• Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant
  

  Levels offered: Certificate

New Mexico Interesting Facts

• Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the United States at 7,000 feet above sea level.
• The province that was once Spanish New Mexico included all of present day New Mexico, most of Colorado and Arizona, and slices of Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. The Original American Territory of New Mexico that congress created in 1850 included all of New Mexico and Arizona plus parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. The boundaries of present day New Mexico were drawn by congress in 1863 but New Mexico didn't become a state until 1912.
• Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta.
• Las Cruces makes the world's largest enchilada the first weekend in October at the "Whole Enchilada Fiesta".
• Lakes and Rivers make up only .002% of the state's total surface area. The lowest water-to-land ratio of all 50 states. Most of New Mexico's lakes are man-made reservoirs. A dam on the Rio Grande formed the Elephant Butte Reservoir the state's largest lake.

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