by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,613 people earned their degree in food & nutrition, making the major the 228th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 152 food & nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 87 food & nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food & nutrition. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in food & nutrition.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Framingham State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region list. Located in Framingham, Massachusetts, this small public school awarded 40 degrees to qualified bachelors’s food & nutrition students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #2 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s food & nutrition degrees to 36 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Saint Joseph. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in West Hartford, Connecticut, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #4 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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