US Culinary Schools compares U.S. colleges and career schools that train cooks, chefs, bakers and pastry chefs, using federal education data. This page explains who writes the site, how pages are checked, how the site earns money and how mistakes get fixed. It is written by the site’s owner and author, Anki P, and applies to every page.
Who writes this site
Every page is written and reviewed by Anki P, who has run US Culinary Schools since 2019. Anki P is not a chef or a culinary educator. The site’s value is the data work: which schools really offer culinary training, what they cost after aid, and which programs have closed. That work is checked against federal data and each school’s own published pages.
How schools get onto the site
A school is listed when it reported culinary graduates to the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS completions, CIP 12.05 family) in one of the two most recent years of data, and its own catalog or program page shows that the program is still offered. In November 2026 we checked every school that the federal data could not confirm against its catalog and removed 61 listings: 21 programs that had ended and 40 that were hospitality-only, high-school-only or not culinary at all. We do not add schools because they advertise with us, and we do not remove them because they do not.
How the numbers are built (tuition, net price, enrollment) is explained on the methodology page.
How sponsored listings work
Many pages carry a block titled “Featured Culinary & Pastry Arts Programs Now Accepting Applications”. Those listings are supplied by Esyoh, an education marketing partner, and the site earns a fee when a reader clicks one of them. Some pages also show Google ads. Sponsored listings and ads:
- never change the order or contents of a comparison table;
- never decide which schools a page singles out;
- never remove a closure, an accreditation note or a cost figure.
A school that appears in the sponsored block is described on our pages with the same scrutiny as any other, including its total cost, accreditation and published outcomes.
How pages are written and reviewed
Pages are drafted with AI assistance from the federal data and from each school’s published materials. No page is published until Anki P has reviewed it against those sources. Every figure on a page comes from a named source with the date it was retrieved. Content pages show the date they were last reviewed, and pages that have changed in a meaningful way carry a short “What changed on this page” log. Where a page offers a view, such as which programs stand out in a state, it is the author’s judgement and the reasons are on the page. We do not publish “best school” rankings that claim a precision the data cannot support.
Corrections
If a figure, a program description or a closure is wrong, tell us through the contact page with a link to the source. Verified corrections are made within seven days and recorded in the page’s change log. Schools can request corrections the same way.