2023 Most Popular Colleges for Nutrition Science in Georgia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Nutrition Science Major in Georgia” ranking - to help you make that 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 Georgia, there were 151 nutrition science graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,816 and $19,625 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Nutrition Science Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nutrition science. To top this list, a school must have a successful nutrition science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Nutrition Science Major in Georgia

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia nutrition science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Nutrition Science in Georgia

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

$46,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,019 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nutrition Science Major in Georgia list. University of Georgia is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 145 ’s nutrition science degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UGA Nutrition Science Report

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

$56,204 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,616 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Nutrition Science Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s nutrition science degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Nutrition Science at Emory 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

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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