2024 Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #106 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 60 bachelor's degrees in food, nutrition & related services during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on food, nutrition & related services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other food, nutrition & related services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt food, nutrition & related services students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized food, nutrition & related services related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for food, nutrition & related services students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The 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 the Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Food, Nutrition & Related Services in Kentucky

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services.

Top Kentucky Schools for a Bachelor's in Nutrition

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

54 Annual Graduates

$24,464 Median Starting Salary

$24,270 Median Student Debt

It is hard to beat University of Kentucky if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services. UK is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Lexington.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the nutrition program make around $24,464 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in food, nutrition & related services from University of Kentucky

2

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, KY

6 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Eastern Kentucky University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services. Eastern is a large public university located in the town of Richmond.More information about a bachelor’s in food, nutrition & related services from Eastern Kentucky University

Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	224	21
Tennessee	220	51
North Carolina	213	115
Virginia	213	305
South Carolina	195	23
Alabama	184	192
Mississippi	169	4
Arkansas	167	76

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Food, Nutrition & Related Services Related Rankings by Major

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is one of 8 different types of Family, Consumer & Human Sciences programs to choose from.

Nutrition Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Food & Nutrition	41
Human Nutrition	19

Majors Similar to Nutrition

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Textile & Apparel Studies	95
Human Development & Family Studies	62
General Family & Consumer Sciences	38

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.