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2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
102 Degrees Awarded
$11,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Food Processing is the 318th most popular major in the country with 251 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, food processing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $54,250 and had an average of $22,000 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 102 food processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food processing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food processing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the food processing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Processing (Income $0-$30k)

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s food processing degrees to qualified students.

Texas A&M College Station did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M College Station is $11,454 for bachelor’s degree food processing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Food Processing at Texas A&M University - College Station

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Ohio State is a large public school situated in Columbus, Ohio. It awarded 14 bachelors’s food processing degrees in 2019-2020.

Ohio State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $8,194 for bachelor’s degree food processing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Ohio State Food Processing Report

#3

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Kansas State University is a large public school situated in Manhattan, Kansas. It awarded 49 bachelors’s food processing degrees in 2019-2020.

K -State also made our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for K -State is $14,232 for Bachelor’s Degree Food Processing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Food Processing at K -State

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s food processing students in 2019-2020.

UNL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UNL is $12,216 for bachelor’s degree food processing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Food Processing at UNL

#5

Angelo State University

San Angelo, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Angelo State University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Angelo State is a fairly large school located in San Angelo, Texas that handed out 3 bachelors’s food processing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Angelo State, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Angelo State is $9,799 for Bachelor’s Degree Food Processing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Angelo State University Food Processing Report

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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