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2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

5 Ranked Colleges
120 Degrees Awarded
$24,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Food Science is the 283rd most popular major in the country with 1,815 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 192 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 120 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science (Income $75-$110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ithaca, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s food sciences degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree food sciences students whose families make $75-$110k list, Cornell has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Cornell is $23,128 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree food sciences students whose families make $75-$110k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#2

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. University of Delaware is located in Newark, Delaware and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s food sciences degrees to qualified students.

UD not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $18,614 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Food Sciences students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Delaware.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, 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 90%.

Read full report on Food Science at UD

#3

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. This large school is located in College Park, Maryland, and it awarded 49 bachelors’s food sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

UMCP also made our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $22,710 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Food Sciences students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UMCP.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Food Science at UMCP

#4

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Rutgers New Brunswick is a large school located in New Brunswick, New Jersey that handed out 30 bachelors’s food sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Rutgers New Brunswick not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Rutgers New Brunswick is $26,914 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree food sciences students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Rutgers University - New Brunswick Food Science Report

#5

Delaware Valley University

Doylestown, Pennsylvania
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware Valley University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k. DelVal is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It awarded 4 bachelors’s food sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

DelVal did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $29,183 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Food Sciences students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend DelVal.

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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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