2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,812 people earned their degree in food science, making the major the 305th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 48 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food science. That schools that top this list have a program in food science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree food sciences students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It awarded 12 bachelors’s food sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Food Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 8 bachelors’s food sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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