Here are some tips for selecting schools, based on an analysis comparing each school to all others across dozens of factors:
Schools Concentrating On Chefs
- Focus: For schools with a focus on this career area, look at Delgado Community College, Bossier Parish Community College, and Nicholls State.
Fastest Response From Schools
- Request Info: For the fastest information for prospective students, look at the Spotlight schools on this page.
Student Body
- Part-Time: For schools emphasizing part-time studies, consider Nicholls State.
- Diverse: For a diverse student body, consider Louisiana Tech Baton Rouge, Louisiana Tech Jefferson, Louisiana Tech Shelby Shreveport Bossier, and Louisiana Tech Lafayette.
- Adult Learners: For lots of adult learners, consider Bossier Parish Community College.
School Setting
- Out of State: For geographic diversity, take note of NTC and Nicholls State.
- Dorms: For a residential campus environment, take note of Nicholls State.
Excellence
- Class Size: For small class sizes, look at Louisiana Tech Lafayette, Nicholls State, Sowela Technical Community College, and Delgado Community College.
Student/Alumnus Reviews of Schools for This Career and State
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Louisiana Technical College • Lafayette, LA
Studying Food Service (completion in 2002)
• 12/30/2011
"I feel that it would have been better to just get OTJ training. Cheaper too."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | no | My advice would be to find a kitchen that will take you and start from the bottom. Put some time in the dish pit, move to fry side. After that either find a new place to work or put the time in to move up to AKM. |
| Program Reputation | 4 | No one in the industry is impressed with technical schools. I would be better off just getting a job in a dish pit and working my way up. |
| Program Quality | 5 | They teach you the very basics but very little knife skills. |
| Instruction | 8 | The little kitchen skills they taught they did a good job with. They stressed clean up. |
| How Difficult | 1 | Anyone with common sense would figure this out more. I feel that I learned more with OTJ training. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | There was very little book work. They were quick to get us into the lab. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 5 | It was a small major with classes offered from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. |
| Academic Facilities | 5 | The lab was decent. It could have been bigger and stations sometimes overlapped. |
| Social Life | 3 | It was a technical school and we didn't get the whole university feel from it. Most other students here were trying to get out as quickly as possible. |
| Placement Services | I didn't use this. I found a job in the first kitchen that would hire me. | |
| Alumni Network | I didn't take advantage of this. I went straight into a kitchen and networked there. |
Louisiana Culinary Institute • Baton Rouge, LA
Studying Culinary Arts (completion in 2005)
• 1/4/2012
"There are other schools near me that I may have enjoyed better and could have resulted in a better career."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | yes | I would only recommend it if they truly loved to cook and work with others. |
| Program Reputation | 2 | They're not well known at all. The program was overshadowed by the sports department. |
| Program Quality | 10 | The school was excellent. And the professors were terrific. |
| Instruction | 8 | They taught me the fundamentals of cooking, but never discussed the politics of restaurants. |
| How Difficult | 1 | I found it to be fun and quick. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | It's equal in both teaching styles. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 10 | They provide both morning and night classes. |
| Academic Facilities | 2 | They're lacking in basic materials. |
| Social Life | 10 | I liked the professors and loved my fellow students. |
| Placement Services | 2 | They never attempted to find me any work. Everything I've done after college was on my own. |
| Alumni Network | 10 | Yes they are always bothering me! |
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