by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 5,330 people earned their degree in nutrition sciences, making the major the 136th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 726 nutrition sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 496 nutrition sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in nutrition sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in nutrition sciences.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Woman’s University is a fairly large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 76 bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 161 bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 145 bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
Read more about Nutrition Sciences at Texas A&M College Station
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Christian University is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 19 bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nutrition Sciences at Texas Christian University
University of Central Oklahoma did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. University of Central Oklahoma is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Nutrition Sciences at University of Central Oklahoma
Texas Tech University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech University is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 53 bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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 ranking of #8, University of the Incarnate Word did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s nutrition sciences students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Southwest Region ranking. UT Rio Grande Valley is located in Edinburg, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s nutrition sciences degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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