Fort Worth, TX (population: 751,149) has one cooking school within its city limits. Tarrant County College District has a total student population of 44,355. It is the 5120th highest ranked school in the USA and the 283rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Cooking students from Fort Worth 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.
Fort Worth lies in Tarrant county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan area has 856,430 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $19.78/hr average worker wage, and a $41,140 average annual salary.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Tarrant County College District ends up costing a student $5,592/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Fort Worth |
| Forth Worth | TX | - | 3 | 11.7915 | 4 | 2.0 miles |
| North Richland Hills | TX | 67,133 | 1 | 26.4697 | 12 | 10.3 miles |
| Arlington | TX | 385,024 | 17 | 27.7925 | 325 | 12.9 miles |
| Keller | TX | 41,437 | 0 | - | 0 | 14.0 miles |
| Mansfield | TX | 51,237 | 5 | 21.6558 | 95 | 17.9 miles |
| Grand Prairie | TX | 167,767 | 3 | 23.6315 | 22 | 19.1 miles |
| Grapevine | TX | 51,993 | 0 | - | 0 | 20.0 miles |
| Irving | TX | 206,798 | 5 | 26.9216 | 138 | 22.8 miles |
| Flower Mound | TX | 72,721 | 0 | - | 0 | 24.2 miles |
| Lewisville | TX | 108,843 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.0 miles |
| Carrollton | TX | 130,013 | 4 | 29.2073 | 85 | 30.5 miles |
| Dallas | TX | 1,304,930 | 38 | 20.246 | 638 | 33.3 miles |
| Denton | TX | 127,364 | 2 | 47.1819 | 284 | 34.1 miles |
| Plano | TX | 282,016 | 1 | 11.5039 | 67 | 40.1 miles |
| University | MS | - | 1 | 33.9448 | 106 | 40.5 miles |
| Frisco | TX | 114,533 | 0 | - | 0 | 40.9 miles |
| Garland | TX | 220,597 | 5 | 20.3828 | 26 | 42.7 miles |
| Mesquite | TX | 134,509 | 2 | 15.1606 | 53 | 43.1 miles |
| Allen | TX | 90,456 | 0 | - | 0 | 46.2 miles |
| Rowlett | TX | 57,581 | 0 | - | 0 | 47.2 miles |
| Corsicana | TX | - | 1 | 14.4403 | 62 | 68.1 miles |
| Cisco | TX | - | 1 | 12.0718 | 82 | 98.8 miles |
| Ardmore | OK | - | 1 | 18.2326 | 23 | 99.2 miles |