2025 Best Food Science Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools
Food Science Technology is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #148 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 28 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for food science technology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,110 bachelor's degrees in food science technology during the <nil> academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Food Science Technology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The food science tech bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to food science technology students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other food science technology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt food science technology 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 food science technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for food science technology students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Food Science Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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