2024 Best Food & Nutrition Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
33Master's Degrees
Food & Nutrition is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #213 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for food & nutrition students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 33 master's degrees in food & nutrition during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Food & Nutrition School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of food & nutrition for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality food & nutrition program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on food & nutrition students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of food & nutrition students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized food & nutrition related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for food & nutrition students working on their master's degree.
The food & nutrition school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Food & Nutrition Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Food & Nutrition in the Plains States Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in food & nutrition.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Master's in Food & Nutrition
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.