2022 Best Value Food Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Food Science Technology is the 183rd most popular major in the country with 2,415 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, food science technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $42,382 and had an average of $21,826 in loans still to pay off.

Across Michigan, there were 95 food science technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,500 and $27,851 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 52 food science technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,608 and $41,198 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food science technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Food Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Food Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in Michigan.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food Science Technology in Michigan

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$37,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$85,538 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Food Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in Michigan list. Michigan State is a large school located in East Lansing, Michigan that handed out 52 masters’s food science tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food Science Technology Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056.

Read more about Food Science Technology at Michigan State

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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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