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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Processing

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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s” 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.

For this year’s “Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in food processing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food processing programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The food processing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s”.

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Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Processing

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas
#1 in overall quality
$18,285 Average Net Price
$64,087 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 list. This large school is located in Manhattan, Kansas, and 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. It costs about $18,285 for Bachelor’s Degree Food Processing students per year to attend K -State.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#2

Angelo State University

San Angelo, Texas
#5 in overall quality
$13,819 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Angelo State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. Angelo State University 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. It costs about $13,819 for bachelor’s degree food processing students per year to attend Angelo State.

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#3

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska
#3 in overall quality
$17,208 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a public institution located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL also took the #3 spot in our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UNL is $17,208 for bachelor’s degree food processing students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

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#4

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas
#2 in overall quality
$19,057 Average Net Price

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #4 spot on the list. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s food processing degrees to 22 students 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. It costs about $19,057 for Bachelor’s Degree Food Processing students per year to attend Texas A&M College Station.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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%.

Full Texas A&M University - College Station Food Processing Report

#5

Ohio State University - Main Campus

Columbus, Ohio
#4 in overall quality
$17,616 Average Net Price
$44,835 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Food Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s food processing degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Ohio State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Food Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $17,616 for bachelor’s degree food processing students per year to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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