2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Food, Nutrition & Related Services is the 131st most popular major in the country with 4,889 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, food, nutrition and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,096 and had an average of $25,351 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 334 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate” ranking looked at 13 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food, nutrition and related services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food, nutrition and related services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the food, nutrition and related services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate.
Top 13 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Schenectady County Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate list. SUNY Schenectady County Community College is a small school located in Schenectady, New York that handed out 15 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
SUNY Schenectady also took the #2 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Schenectady County Community College is $5,717 for Associate Degree Nutrition students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate. Saint Louis Community College is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 7 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Saint Louis Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Saint Louis Community College is $6,796 for associate degree nutrition students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Luzerne County Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate. Luzerne County Community College is a small public school situated in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. It awarded 4 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Luzerne County Community College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $7,985 for Associate Degree Nutrition students per year to attend Luzerne County Community College.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate list. Central New Mexico Community College is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 associates’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.
CNM also made our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend Central New Mexico Community College is $3,429 for associate degree nutrition students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Los Angeles College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate. East Los Angeles College is a large public school situated in Monterey Park, California. It awarded 23 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at East Los Angeles College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $9,570 for Associate Degree Nutrition students per year to attend East Los Angeles College.
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Fresno City College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking. Fresno City College is a large school located in Fresno, California that handed out 7 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Fresno City College also took the #7 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Fresno City College is $2,622 for associate degree nutrition students.
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Riverside City College did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Riverside, California, this large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified associates’s nutrition students in 2019-2020.
Riverside City College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $4,620 for associate degree nutrition students per year to attend Riverside City College.
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Moorpark College ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate list. Moorpark College is a fairly large school located in Moorpark, California that handed out 11 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Moorpark College also made our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #8. It costs about $1,473 for Associate Degree Nutrition students per year to attend Moorpark College.
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Ventura College came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking. Ventura College is a fairly large public school situated in Ventura, California. It awarded 6 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Ventura College also made our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #9. It costs about $1,514 for associate degree nutrition students per year to attend Ventura College.
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Rio Hondo College landed the #10 spot on the 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking. RHCCD is a fairly large school located in Whittier, California that handed out 1 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
RHCCD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #10 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $5,487 for associate degree nutrition students per year to attend RHCCD.
Hostos Community College did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking, coming in at #11. Hostos is a medium-sized public school situated in Bronx, New York. It awarded 2 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Hostos also made our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #11. It costs about $5,262 for associate degree nutrition students per year to attend Hostos Community College.
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Mott Community College landed the #12 spot on the 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking. This medium-sized school is located in Flint, Michigan, and it awarded 2 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
MCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #13 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $7,481 for Associate Degree Nutrition students per year to attend MCC.
The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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Los Angeles City College came in at #13 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate ranking. Los Angeles City College is a fairly large public school situated in Los Angeles, California. It awarded 1 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.
Los Angeles City College also made our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #12. The yearly cost to attend Los Angeles City College is $6,716 for Associate Degree Nutrition students.
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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%.
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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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