2022 Best Value Nutrition Science Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nutrition Science Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Nutrition Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 5,044 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, nutrition science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,764 and had an average of $28,222 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 110 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,900 and $21,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great nutrition science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nutrition science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Nutrition Science Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Nutrition Science Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Science Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nutrition Science in Connecticut

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nutrition Science Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nutrition science degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nutrition Science Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

• *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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