2024 Best Food & Nutrition Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
291Food & Nutrition Degrees Awarded
A degree in food & nutrition is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #228 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
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 degree. Combined, these schools handed out 291 degrees in food & nutrition to qualified students.
The food & nutrition program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Food & Nutrition rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for food & nutrition schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Food & Nutrition in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of food & nutrition degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Food & Nutrition
Every student pursuing a degree in food & nutrition needs to check out University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #138 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 174 food & nutrition students who graduated with this degree at UNL in the most recent data year.
North Dakota State University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in food & nutrition. Located in the medium-sized city of Fargo, North Dakota State University is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 12 schools for overall quality in the state of North Dakota.
There were about 19 food & nutrition students who graduated with this degree at North Dakota State University in the most recent year we have data available.
Kansas State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in food & nutrition. Located in the small city of Manhattan, K -State is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 47 schools for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were about 7 food & nutrition students who graduated with this degree at K -State in the most recent data year.
University of Missouri - Columbia is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in food & nutrition. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #124 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were about 50 food & nutrition students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The food & nutrition program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Food & Nutrition rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for food & nutrition schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
