Other Personal & Culinary Studies
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Other Personal & Culinary Studies degree recipients are Clovis, CA, Fall River, MA, and El Reno, OK. In 2021, the locations with a relatively high number of Other Personal & Culinary Studies degree recipients are Clovis, CA, El Reno, OK, and Fall River, MA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Other Personal & Culinary Studies is a 1 to 2 year postsecondary certificate.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Other Personal & Culinary Studies and the types of students that study this field. Institute of Technology awards the most degrees in Other Personal & Culinary Studies in the US, having also the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Other Personal & Culinary Studies, followed by Canadian Valley Technology Center.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Other Personal & Culinary Studies programs are Public, 2-year institutions (4 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private for-profit, 2-year (68 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Other Personal & Culinary Studies, is Private for-profit, 2-year (68 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Other Personal & Culinary Studies programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Institute of Technology has the most Other Personal & Culinary Studies degree recipients, with 68 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Other Personal & Culinary Studies.
Out of all institutions that offer Other Personal & Culinary Studies programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Institute of Technology has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Other Personal & Culinary Studies, with 8.27%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Other Personal & Culinary Studies by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Other Personal & Culinary Studies.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Personal & Culinary Services graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Personal & Culinary Services majors is $56,478 and the most common occupations are Chefs & head cooks, Cooks, and Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors.
The industry that employs the most Personal & Culinary Services majors is Restaurants & Food Services, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Offices of physicians.
The average salary for Personal & Culinary Services majors is $56,478 and the most common occupations are Chefs & head cooks, Cooks, and Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Personal & Culinary Services majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Personal & Culinary Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Personal & Culinary Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Personal & Culinary Services majors, by number of employees, are Chefs & head cooks, Cooks, and Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Personal & Culinary Services majors working as Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors, Chefs & head cooks, and Embalmers & funeral attendants.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Personal & Culinary Services majors are Chief executives & legislators, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Industrial production managers.
The number of Personal & Culinary Services graduates in the workforce has been declining at a rate of 1.24%, from 53,156 in 2020 to 52,499 in 2021.
The largest single share of Personal & Culinary Services graduates go on to work as Chefs & head cooks (16.9%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Personal & Culinary Services by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Personal & Culinary Services majors, by number of employees, are Restaurants & Food Services, Funeral homes, & cemeteries & crematories , and Traveler accommodation.
The highest paying industries of Personal & Culinary Services majors, by average wage, are Offices of physicians, Computer Systems Design, and Waste management & remediation services.
The number of Personal & Culinary Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 1.24%, from 53,156 in 2020 to 52,499 in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Personal & Culinary Services graduates by share is Restaurants & Food Services, followed by Funeral homes, & cemeteries & crematories . This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Personal & Culinary Services.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Personal & Culinary Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Personal & Culinary Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Personal & Culinary Services in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Personal & Culinary Services is 38.7.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate. Male employees are more likely to hold Personal & Culinary Services degrees, and Hispanic or Latino students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Personal & Culinary Services (30 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Personal & Culinary Services. The most common ages of employees with this major are 32 and 30 years old, which represent 4.66% and 4.48% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Other Personal & Culinary Studies are 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate and Associates Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Personal & Culinary Services are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Other Personal & Culinary Studies.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Other Personal & Culinary Studies for each race & ethnicity. Hispanic or Latino students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate recipients in Other Personal & Culinary Studies.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in France that hold Personal & Culinary Services degrees (7.54 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (1,571 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Other Personal & Culinary Studies field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Other Personal & Culinary Studies majors need many skills, but most especially Service Orientation. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Other Personal & Culinary Studies majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, Active Listening, Coordination, Negotiation, Speaking, Persuasion, Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Time Management, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Reading Comprehension, Management of Personnel Resources, Technology Design, Complex Problem Solving, Writing, Learning Strategies, Management of Material Resources, Instructing, Mathematics, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Management of Financial Resources, Programming, Operation and Control, Operation Monitoring, Operations Analysis, Quality Control Analysis, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Other Personal & Culinary Studies majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Service Orientation, Active Listening, Speaking, Social Perceptiveness, Critical Thinking, Coordination, Reading Comprehension, Monitoring, Persuasion, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Writing, Negotiation, Time Management, Complex Problem Solving, Management of Personnel Resources, Learning Strategies, Instructing, Systems Analysis, Mathematics, Systems Evaluation, Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Technology Design, Operation Monitoring, Operations Analysis, Programming, Operation and Control, Quality Control Analysis, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
