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2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
102 Degrees Awarded
$17,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 251 people earned their degree in food processing, making the major the 318th most popular in the United States. 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 Getting Aid” 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food processing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree food processing students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Processing (With Aid)

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. K -State is a large school located in Manhattan, Kansas that handed out 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 yearly cost to attend Kansas State University is $18,285 for Bachelor’s Degree Food Processing students with aid.

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

Full K -State Food Processing Report

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M University - College Station is $19,057 for bachelor’s degree food processing students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Food Processing at Texas A&M College Station

#3

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 #3 on our 2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Angelo State University is a public institution located in San Angelo, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Angelo State also took the #5 spot in our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,819 for bachelor’s degree food processing students with aid per year to attend Angelo State University.

Read more about Food Processing at Angelo State

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s food processing degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UNL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for UNL is $17,208 for bachelor’s degree food processing students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Food Processing Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Columbus, Ohio, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s food processing degrees in 2019-2020.

Ohio State also made our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Ohio State is $17,616 for bachelor’s degree food processing students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Food Processing at Ohio State

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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