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Cooking Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has five cooking schools within its city limits. Drexel University, the highest ranked school in the city with a cooking program, has a total student population of 22,493. It is the 108th highest ranked school in the USA and the 8th highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania).

Cooking students from Philadelphia 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.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary.

Of the 5 cooking schools in Philadelphia, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for cooking students, with Community College of Philadelphia as the lowest, reported at only $6,012/yr.

Cooking Programs in Philadelphia

• Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant
  

  Levels offered: Certificate

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