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2022 Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$33,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor's in California For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,986 people earned their degree in food and nutrition, making the major the 206th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 287 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food and nutrition programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food and nutrition program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college 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. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition (Income $75-$110k) in California

#1

Point Loma Nazarene University

San Diego, California
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Point Loma Nazarene University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k. This small school is located in San Diego, California, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

PLNU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. It costs about $33,138 for California Bachelor’s Degree Food & Nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend PLNU.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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