2024 Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
6
Colleges in the Southeast Region
41
Doctor's Degrees
Food Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #107 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 6 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 doctor's degrees in food science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Food Science School for Your Doctor's Degree
The food sciences doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on food science students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of food science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized food science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for food science students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Food Science Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.