Private for-profit · Community college

Louisiana Culinary Institute

Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Large suburb

#4 for grad earnings in Louisiana

25%
Transfer rate: $28,869
Avg net price: 73%
Grad / completion: $40,359
Median earnings

Louisiana Culinary Institute is a private for-profit associate-granting institution in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (large suburb setting), enrolling 77 undergraduates.

Private for-profitSmall · 77 undergradsLarge suburbSelective · 38% admit

About Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000–6500 BC, based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the fourth millennium BC. Baton Rouge has an extensive park collection presided over by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge. The largest park is City Park near the Louisiana State University flagship campus. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Associate
Nearest big city: 8 miles to Baton Rouge, LA
To the ocean: 41 miles
Nearest airport: 10 miles to Baton Rouge Metropolitan (BTR)

How Louisiana Culinary Institute compares

Selectivity37.5%

More selective than 91% · #2 most selective of 7 in Louisiana

Graduation rate73%

Higher than 66% · #24 of 73 in Louisiana

First-year retention95%

Higher than 88%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$40,359

Higher than 70% · #4 of 61 in Louisiana

Average net price$28,869

Cheaper than 10% · #66 cheapest of 71 in Louisiana

Median debt at graduation$16,200

Lower than 11%

Student–faculty ratio16 : 1

Lower than 49%

Undergraduate enrollment77

Larger than 22%

Percentiles compare Louisiana Culinary Institute with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Louisiana.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women4558%
Men3242%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White65%
Black27%
Hispanic2.6%
Asian1.3%
Other or multiracial3.9%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 77
Student–faculty ratio: 16 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 39%
First-generation students: 44%
Students over 25: 26%
Median family income: $25,636
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $39,879

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition: $15,575
Room & board: —
Books & supplies: $3,000
Total cost of attendance: $30,162
Average net price: $28,869

Admissions

Admission rate: 37.5%
Test scores: Not considered
SAT range (25th–75th %): —
SAT average: —
SAT reading: —
SAT math: —
ACT composite: —

Outcomes

Graduated: 73%
First-year retention: 95%
Transferred to another college: 25%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $30,808
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $40,359
Median debt at graduation: $16,200
Students with federal loans: 69%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 60%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $25

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

$26,507

$30–48k

—

$48–75k

$28,644

$75–110k

$30,079

$110k+

$29,898

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $40,359
Typical debt at graduation: $16,200
Debt vs. one year's pay: 40%
Out-earn a HS grad: 61%

Typical debt would take roughly 4.0 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women

$32,754

Men

$48,818

Men out-earn women by $16,064 (49%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high: 91°F
Winter low: 40°F
Annual rain: 60.5″
Annual snow: 0.2″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Lsu Ben-Hur Farm, LA US station (6.8 mi from campus).

What Louisiana Culinary Institute graduates study — and earn

Culinary Arts and Related Services

49 grads— 1 yr$33k 5 yr— debt

49—$32,944—Hospitality Administration/Management

4 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

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Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.