2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nutrition Sciences in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Nutrition Sciences is the 136th most popular major in the country with 5,330 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 726 nutrition sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 nutrition sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nutrition sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their nutrition sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nutrition Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulsa Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Tulsa Community College is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 associates’s nutrition sciences degrees to qualified students.

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2

San Antonio College
San Antonio, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Antonio College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s nutrition sciences degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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3

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

Top 5% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. University of the Incarnate Word is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 associates’s nutrition sciences degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nutrition Sciences

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.

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