2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in Tennessee

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking.

Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 5,820 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Tennessee, there were 96 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,700 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dietetics and clinical nutrition services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent dietetics and clinical nutrition services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the dietetics and clinical nutrition services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in Tennessee

#1

East Tennessee State University

Johnson City, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$25,679 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$44,356 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee list. East Tennessee State University is a fairly large public school situated in Johnson City, Tennessee. It awarded 10 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

ETSU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at ETSU are $25,679, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full ETSU Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Report

#2

University of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$14,202 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Memphis is located in Memphis, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 masters’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

UofM also took the #2 spot in our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Memphis are $14,202, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at University of Memphis

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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%.

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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