Find Schools

Study Area & Zipcode

Find Schools Near

2022 Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
126 Degrees Awarded
$19,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Food & Nutrition is the 206th most popular major in the country with 2,986 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 213 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 126 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in food and nutrition. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food and nutrition programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the food and nutrition program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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 Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Detroit, Michigan, this large public school handed out 77 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s food and nutrition students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students with aid list, Wayne State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Wayne State University is $13,965 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Food & Nutrition students with aid.

Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Wayne State

#2

Indiana State University

Terre Haute, Indiana
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Indiana State is located in Terre Haute, Indiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees to qualified students.

Indiana State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $13,896 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students with aid per year to attend Indiana State.

Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Indiana State University

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kent State University at Kent. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Kent State University at Kent is a large school located in Kent, Ohio that handed out 1 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

Kent State also made our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $18,885 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students with aid per year to attend Kent State.

Read more about Food & Nutrition at Kent State

#4

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bradley University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Bradley is located in Peoria, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees to qualified students.

Bradley did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $25,634 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Food & Nutrition students with aid per year to attend Bradley University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Bradley Food & Nutrition Report

#5

Benedictine University

Lisle, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Benedictine University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Food & Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Benedictine U is a small school located in Lisle, Illinois that handed out 21 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

Benedictine U also made our “Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $25,143 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students with aid per year to attend Benedictine U.

Full Benedictine University Food & Nutrition Report

Switch to a Different Ranking Method

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.

Featured Nutrition and Wellness Schools

Find Schools Near You