by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Food Science is the 305th most popular major in the country with 1,812 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 250 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 169 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in food science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in food science.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree food sciences students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware Valley University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. DelVal is a private not-for-profit institution located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 29 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s food sciences students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate 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.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Maryland - College Park is a public institution located in College Park, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Rutgers New Brunswick is a large school located in New Brunswick, New Jersey that handed out 37 bachelors’s food sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Delaware. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Newark, Delaware, this large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s food sciences students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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