2025 Best Food Processing Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
88Food Processing Degrees Awarded
$54,516Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in food processing. It is ranked #339 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Food Processing Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 88 degrees in food processing annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Food Processing Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Food Processing in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the food processing degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Food Processing
Kansas State University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in food processing. K -State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Manhattan.
Degree recipients from the food processing program at Kansas State University earn $21,536 more than the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Morningside College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in food processing. Located in the small city of Sioux City, Morningside is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a degree in food processing from Morningside College
Best Food Processing Colleges by State
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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).
