Culinary Institute Inc

Houston, TX · For-profit · 313 undergrads · website ↗

37% Hispanic undergrads
Open admission
$50 application fee

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

Not published

This college doesn't report a transfer rate to the Department of Education. That means unknown — not zero. Ask them directly.

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$30,428
$30,000 – $48,000	—
$48,000 – $75,000	—
$75,000 – $110,000	—
Over $110,000	—
All incomes (average)	$30,428

Sticker tuition and fees: $18,827 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Culinary Institute Inc's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

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Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$6,316
Books and supplies	$2,997
Other expenses, off campus	$8,869

Outcomes

Completion rate: 100%
Students with Pell grants: 56%
Earnings @ 10yr: $32,195
Median debt: $16,004

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Open admission
Application fee: $50
Students per faculty member: 17 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 90%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Culinary Arts and Related Services	119	$33,221	$41,359national $39,605	$27,214

Undergraduate certificates (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Culinary Arts and Related Services	43	$31,480	$34,608national $30,572	$14,595

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in TX

Austin Community College DistrictAustin30.2%Lone Star College SystemThe Woodlands28.7%Tyler Junior CollegeTyler27.8%Collin County Community College DistrictMcKinney26.5%Alvin Community CollegeAlvin26.2%Navarro CollegeCorsicana23.1%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 7070 Allensby, Houston, TX 77022-4322
Phone: (713) 692-0077 ext. 5070
Institutional accreditor: Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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