2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 5,820 people earned their degree in dietetics and clinical nutrition services, making the major the 133rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,082 and had an average of $28,428 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,244 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,808 and $26,589 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in dietetics and clinical nutrition services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality dietetics and clinical nutrition services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the dietetics and clinical nutrition services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree nutrition students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in the Southeast Region

#1

Hillsborough Community College

Tampa, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$3,238 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hillsborough Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Hillsborough Community College is located in Tampa, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 associates’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

HCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Hillsborough Community College is $3,238 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Nutrition students.

Full Hillsborough Community College Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Report

#2

Gaston College

Dallas, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$8,486 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gaston College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Dallas, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s nutrition degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Gaston College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $8,486 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Nutrition students per year to attend Gaston College.

Full Gaston College Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Report

#3

Black River Technical College

Pocahontas, Arkansas

#3 in overall quality

$7,690 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Black River Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Black River Technical College is a small school located in Pocahontas, Arkansas that handed out 3 associates’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

Black River Technical College also made our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Black River Technical College is $7,690 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Nutrition students.

Read more about Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at Black River Technical College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition 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

• *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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