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Culinary Arts Schools in Kentucky

10 schools in Kentucky offer culinary arts-related programs, compared below on official cost, completion, and earnings data. Prefer to earn while you learn? 9 registered apprenticeship programs in Kentucky train culinary arts apprentices — see apprenticeships.

Schools in Kentucky
10
Median net price / yr (Kentucky)
$5,380
national: $8,331
Median earnings (Kentucky)
$34,698
national: $38,801
Apprenticeship sponsors
9
earn while training
Culinary Arts pay in Kentucky (all workers)
$34,640
range $24,750–$43,750 · U.S. DOL occupation wage

Occupation pay is what working culinary arts professionals in Kentucky 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.

Schools, ranked by earnings per tuition dollar

SchoolCityTypeNet price / yrCompletionEarnings (10 yr)
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical CollegeBowling Greenpublic$3,53743.2%$34,242
Elizabethtown Community and Technical CollegeElizabethtownpublic$5,14336%$36,143
Somerset Community CollegeSomersetpublic$4,39834.8%$30,787
Maysville Community and Technical CollegeMaysvillepublic$4,60543.4%$32,194
Madisonville Community CollegeMadisonvillepublic$5,40649.1%$35,733
West Kentucky Community and Technical CollegePaducahpublic$5,35350.8%$34,891
Ashland Community and Technical CollegeAshlandpublic$5,71746.8%$34,504
Jefferson Community and Technical CollegeLouisvillepublic$6,37627.6%$38,171
Sullivan UniversityLouisvilleprivate for-profit$25,53236.3%$38,008
Employment Solutions-College for Technical EducationLexingtonprivate nonprofit$22,87162.8%$20,156

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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Data: U.S. Dept of Education College Scorecard (most recent release, pulled July 2026) + U.S. Dept of Labor apprenticeship.gov. Methodology & provenance. Independent site — not affiliated with any government agency.