2022 Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,986 people earned their degree in food and nutrition, making the major the 206th most popular in the United States.

Across Virginia, there were 267 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 254 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in food and nutrition. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food and nutrition programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food and nutrition program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition in Virginia

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,198 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees to 213 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Virginia Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Virginia Tech is $21,198 for virginia bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.

Read more about Food & Nutrition at Virginia Tech

#2

Radford University

Radford, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$16,447 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Radford University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Radford, Virginia, this fairly large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s food and nutrition students in 2019-2020.

Radford did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. It costs about $16,447 for Virginia Bachelor’s Degree Food & Nutrition students per year to attend Radford.

Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Radford University

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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.

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