Top Virginia Cooking Schools : Programs, Colleges, Degrees, Courses, Classes, Certification, Training

Cooking Schools in Virginia

Virginia contains ten schools that offer cooking programs. Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, the highest-ranking cooking school in VA, has a total student population of 218 and is the 964th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 10 cooking schools in Virginia, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Washington comes out as the most expensive ($42,518/yr), with Dabney S Lancaster Community College as the lowest recorded at only $4,009/yr.

Cooking students from Virginia 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. In fact, in the Virginia alone, there are employed cooks, private household earning an average yearly salary of $26,770. Chefs and head cooks in this state earn $51,730/yr and there are 2,090 employed.

Also, within the cooking schools in Virginia, the average student population is 3,287 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from cooking, there are 3782 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,568 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,181, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Cooking Programs in Virginia

Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center

Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant

Levels offered: Certificate

Northern Virginia Community College

Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General

Levels offered: Certificate

Stratford University

Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General

Levels offered: Associates

Tidewater Community College

Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General

Levels offered: Associates

Dabney S Lancaster Community College

Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General

Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

Virginia Western Community College

Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General

Levels offered: Associates

J Sargeant Reynolds Community College

Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General

Levels offered: Associates

Virginia Interesting Facts

Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to be traded with the Court of King James. After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop.
Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia.
Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation".

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