2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services is the 128th most popular major in the country with 6,158 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,641 and had an average of $27,579 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,313 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,626 and $24,360 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in dietetics and clinical nutrition services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dietetics and clinical nutrition services.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree nutrition students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Maryland University of Integrative Health
Laurel, Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryland University of Integrative Health landed the #1 spot on the list. MUIH is a small school located in Laurel, Maryland that handed out 17 doctorate’s nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Rutgers University - New Brunswick is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

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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

• *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.