2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,815 people earned their degree in food science, making the major the 283rd most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 31 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the food science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science in Mississippi

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$16,173 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 31 degrees to qualified bachelors’s food sciences students in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $16,173 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Food Sciences students per year to attend Mississippi State University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Food Science at Mississippi State University

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Muhammad Irshad Ansari.

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