by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Dietetics/Dietitian is the 207th most popular major in the country with 3,788 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,001 dietetics/dietitian graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 188 dietetics/dietitian graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 10 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dietetics/dietitian. That schools that top this list have a program in dietetics/dietitian in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree dietetics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Murray State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region. Murray State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Murray, Kentucky. It awarded 32 masters’s dietetics degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Huntington, West Virginia, this fairly large public school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s dietetics students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Florida landed the #3 spot on the list. University of North Florida is located in Jacksonville, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 masters’s dietetics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Dietetics/Dietitian at University of North Florida
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Appalachian State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Boone, North Carolina, and it awarded 30 masters’s dietetics 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 3.6% 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 more about Dietetics/Dietitian at Appalachian State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana Tech University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large school located in Ruston, Louisiana that handed out 7 masters’s dietetics degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Dietetics/Dietitian at Louisiana Tech University
With a ranking of #6, Florida International University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region list. FIU is located in Miami, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 33 masters’s dietetics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Read full report on Dietetics/Dietitian at Florida International University
Virginia Tech landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s dietetics students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Florida State University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region list. Florida State is a large public school situated in Tallahassee, Florida. It awarded 14 masters’s dietetics degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Dietetics/Dietitian at Florida State University
Ouachita Baptist University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Ouachita Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Tennessee Technological University ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dietetics Major in the Southeast Region list. Cookeville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s dietetics degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Dietetics/Dietitian at Tennessee Technological University
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