2024 Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington
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Ranked Colleges
193
Degrees Awarded
$12,000
Avg Net Price*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Nutrition Science is the 124th most popular major in the country with 5,330 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, nutrition science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,647 and had an average of $23,229 in loans still to pay off.
Across Washington, there were 193 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,572 and $24,175 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nutrition science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nutrition science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the nutrition science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington” list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Nutrition Science in Washington
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 107 diplomas to qualified ’s nutrition science students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW Seattle, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Nutrition Science Schools in Washington” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Washington - Seattle Campus is $12,017 for Washington Nutrition Science students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Nutrition Science at UW Seattle
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bastyr University. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Washington list. Located in Kenmore, Washington, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 66 degrees to qualified ’s nutrition science students in 2020-2021.
Bastyr University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Nutrition Science Schools in Washington” list.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at Bastyr University
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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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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