2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Salary
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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 the Plains States region, there were 343 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,105 and $25,575 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 244 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer 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.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 9 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nutrition Science in the Plains States Region
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Saint Benedict landed the #1 spot on the list. CSB is located in Saint Joseph, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Nutrition Science at College of Saint Benedict
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Concordia College at Moorhead. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Moorhead, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s nutrition science students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at Concordia College Moorhead
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region. K -State is located in Manhattan, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 101 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at K -State
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Johns University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Johns University is located in Collegeville, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at Saint Johns University
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at St. Kate’s
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #6. UMN Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 62 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full UMN Twin Cities Nutrition Science Report
Saint Louis University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s nutrition science students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at Saint Louis University
With a ranking of #8, Iowa State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s nutrition science students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Nutrition Science at Iowa State
Fontbonne University landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Science Major in the Plains States Region ranking. This small school is located in Saint Louis, Missouri, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s nutrition science degrees in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Nutrition Science at Fontbonne 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
- *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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