Nutrition Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #92 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for nutrition science students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 116 bachelor's degrees in nutrition science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on nutrition science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other nutrition science students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt nutrition science students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nutrition science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for nutrition science students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Nutrition Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Featured Nutrition Science Programs
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It is hard to beat Colorado State University - Fort Collins if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in nutrition science. Colorado State is a very large public university located in the city of Fort Collins.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the nutrition science program state that they receive average early career income of $30,936.
It is difficult to beat Metropolitan State University of Denver if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in nutrition science. MSU Denver is a fairly large public university located in the city of Denver.
Bachelor's recipients from the nutrition science major at Metropolitan State University of Denver make $3,691 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in nutrition science has to look into University of Northern Colorado. Located in the medium-sized city of Greeley, University of Northern Colorado is a public university with a medium-sized student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the nutrition science program state that they receive average early career income of $23,468.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).