2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Food Science Technology is the 185th most popular major in the country with 2,532 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, food science technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,820 and had an average of $22,586 in loans still to pay off.

Across New York, there were 105 food science technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,489 and $13,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 food science technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,555 and $23,635 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in food science technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their food science technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science Technology in New York

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#1 overall quality in New York

$51,489 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 35 degrees to qualified bachelors’s food science tech students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, 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 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Cornell University Food Science Technology Report

2

SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food Science Tech Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Cobleskill landed the #2 spot on the list. SUNY Cobleskill is a small school located in Cobleskill, New York that handed out 2 bachelors’s food science tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Food Science Technology at SUNY Cobleskill

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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

• *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.

Credits

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