by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Food & Nutrition is the 228th most popular major in the country with 3,131 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 885 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 153 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food and nutrition. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in food and nutrition.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree food & nutrition students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lamar University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region. Lamar University is a fairly large school located in Beaumont, Texas that handed out 57 masters’s food and nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region. Arizona State University - Skysong is a public institution located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 64 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Skysong Food & Nutrition Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s food and nutrition degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #4 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 21 masters’s food and nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Arizona State University - Tempe
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #5 spot on the list. UNM is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 5 masters’s food and nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.
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