2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Southeast region, there were 1,300 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,268 and $26,613 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in dietetics and clinical nutrition services. To top this list, a school must have a successful dietetics and clinical nutrition services program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 “Most Well Attended Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate”.

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Most Well Attended Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in the Southeast Region

1

University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. UNF is located in Jacksonville, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Read more about Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at UNF

2

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. Florida International University is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 3 doctorate’s nutrition degrees 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 Florida International University

• Most Popular 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.