2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,131 people earned their degree in food and nutrition, making the major the 228th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 155 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 60 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food and nutrition. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their food and nutrition program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition in the New England Region

1

Simmons University
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 20% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Simmons University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s food and nutrition degrees to 39 students in 2020-2021.

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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Simmons University

2

Framingham State University
Framingham, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Framingham State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Framingham, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s food and nutrition degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Framingham State University

3

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s food and nutrition degrees to 7 students 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 4.3% 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 URI

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition

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.