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8 schools in Colorado offer culinary arts-related programs, compared below on official cost, completion, and earnings data. Prefer to earn while you learn? 11 registered apprenticeship programs in Colorado train culinary arts apprentices — see apprenticeships.
Occupation pay is what working culinary arts professionals in Colorado earn (all experience levels) — school "earnings" figures above are medians for each school's recent federally-aided students across all its programs, which read lower.
| School | City | Type | Net price / yr | Completion | Earnings (10 yr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak State College | Colorado Springs | public | $6,007 | 23.2% | $40,796 |
| Pickens Technical College | Aurora | public | $6,600 | 67.9% | $39,210 |
| Colorado Mountain College | Glenwood Springs | public | $7,813 | 33.8% | $44,127 |
| Red Rocks Community College | Lakewood | public | $9,044 | 31.6% | $46,288 |
| Emily Griffith Technical College | Denver | public | $7,197 | 92.2% | $35,487 |
| Pueblo Community College | Pueblo | public | $12,045 | 30.6% | $37,434 |
| Colorado Mesa University | Grand Junction | public | $15,103 | 42.5% | $45,823 |
| Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Boulder | Boulder | private for-profit | $13,367 | 55.6% | $32,001 |
Ranking = median earnings 10 years after entry per $1,000 of average yearly net price (methodology). Figures are institution-wide federal medians for each school as a whole — not culinary arts graduates specifically. Schools without both figures sort last — "not reported" means the federal dataset lacks the value, not that the school is bad.
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