2024 Best Food Science Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
49Food Sciences Degrees Awarded
A degree in food science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #305 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Food Science Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 49 degrees in food science to qualified students.
The food sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Food Science rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for food science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Food Science in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the food sciences degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Food Sciences
It is difficult to beat Brigham Young University - Provo if you want to pursue a degree in food science. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Provo. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were about 22 food science students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in food science needs to check out Utah State University. Located in the small city of Logan, USU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #341 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means USU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 4 food science students who graduated with this degree at USU in the most recent data year.
University of Idaho is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in food science. U of I is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Moscow. This university ranks 1st out of 10 colleges for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were approximately 8 food science students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent year we have data available.
Brigham Young University - Idaho is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in food science. Located in the town of Rexburg, BYU - I is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were about 15 food science students who graduated with this degree at BYU - I in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).