If you're seeking a degree in food processing, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #339 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Food Processing Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 190 degrees in food processing to qualified students.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Food Processing Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Food Processing in the United States
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the food processing degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in food processing has to check out Kansas State University. Located in the small city of Manhattan, K -State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Food Processing degree recipients from Kansas State University get an earnings boost of about $21,536 over the typical earnings of food processing graduates.
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).
