Showing the Top 5 of 5 Total
Cooking Schools
in NV
The Art Institute of Las Vegas
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts-Las Vegas
Truckee Meadows Community College
College of Southern Nevada
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Cooking Schools in Nevada
Nevada contains five schools that offer cooking programs. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest-ranking cooking school in NV, has a total student population of 29,080 and is the 1903rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 5 cooking schools in Nevada, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts-Las Vegas comes out as the most expensive ($34,992/yr), with Truckee Meadows Community College as the lowest recorded at only $7,896/yr.
Cooking students from Nevada 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 Nevada, the average student population is 3,396 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from cooking, there are 786 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,014 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,730, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
Cooking Programs in Nevada
Truckee Meadows Community College
- Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General
Levels offered: Certificate
Nevada Interesting Facts
- In 1899 Charles Fey invented a slot machine named the Liberty Bell. The device became the model for all slots to follow.
- The Reno Ice Pavilion is a 16,000-square-foot rink once dismantled and moved to Reno from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- Bugsy Siegel named his Las Vegas casino "The Flamingo" for the long legs of his showgirl sweetheart, Virginia Hill.
- The Imperial Palace on the Las Vegas strip is the nation's first off-airport airline baggage check-in service.
- Bertha was a performing elephant that entertained for 37 years at John Ascuaga's Nugget casino located in Sparks. She was 48 years old when she died.