2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Virginia

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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 Virginia, there were 32 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Virginia” 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Virginia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in Virginia

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

#5 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Virginia list. GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full GMU Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Report

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Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#2 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in Virginia list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified masters’s nutrition students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at Virginia Tech

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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.