2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 District of Columbia, there were 53 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in nutrition science. That schools that top this list have a program in nutrition science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree nutrition science students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nutrition Science in District of Columbia

1

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the District of Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia. University of the District of Columbia is a small public school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 12 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees 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.

Read more about Nutrition Science at University of the District of Columbia

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia list. This fairly large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read more about Nutrition Science at Howard University

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George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in District of Columbia list. George Washington University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 17 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full George Washington University Nutrition Science Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nutrition Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nutrition Science

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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