2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is the 135th most popular major in the country with 4,858 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, food, nutrition and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,748 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 155 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,981 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in food, nutrition and related services. That schools that top this list have a program in food, nutrition and related services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina master’s degree nutrition students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in North Carolina

1

Meredith College
Raleigh, North Carolina

#13 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Meredith College landed the #1 spot on the list. Meredith College is a small school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 29 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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 full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Meredith College

2

North Carolina A & T State University
Greensboro, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina A & T State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina. Greensboro, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nutrition degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at NC A&T

3

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

#6 overall quality in North Carolina

$49,450 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Carolina University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in North Carolina list. ECU is a public institution located in Greenville, North Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at East Carolina University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services

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.