2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in Florida

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 Florida” 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 Florida, there were 450 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,740 and $29,615 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,244 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Florida” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in dietetics and clinical nutrition services. That schools that top this list have a program in dietetics and clinical nutrition services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Florida”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Florida

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in Florida

1

University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida

#16 overall quality in Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s nutrition degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

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 & Clinical Nutrition Services at UNF

2

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

#8 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Florida list. Miami, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s nutrition degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. 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%.

Read full report on Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at FIU

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s 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

• *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.