2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Food & Nutrition is the 228th most popular major in the country with 2,613 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 628 food & nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 107 food & nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 12 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food & nutrition. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their food & nutrition program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree food & nutrition students.
Top 12 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Food & Nutrition in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Meredith College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s food & nutrition degrees to 0 students 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 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at Meredith
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Samford University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 16 diplomas to qualified masters’s food & nutrition students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Samford Food & Nutrition Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Arkansas. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Conway, Arkansas, and it awarded 24 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at UCA
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #4 spot on the list. Southern Miss is a public institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 18 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Southern Mississippi Food & Nutrition Report
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Carolina State University landed the #5 spot on the list. South Carolina State University is a small school located in Orangeburg, South Carolina that handed out 3 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Food & Nutrition at South Carolina State University
With a ranking of #6, University of Mississippi did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in University, Mississippi, and it awarded 11 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at University of Mississippi
North Carolina A & T State University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it awarded 5 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Food & Nutrition at NC A&T
East Carolina University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Greenville, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 12 degrees to qualified masters’s food & nutrition students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at East Carolina University
University of Kentucky came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region ranking. University of Kentucky is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UK Food & Nutrition Report
With a ranking of #10, Virginia Tech did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s food & nutrition degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.
Read full report on Food & Nutrition at Virginia Tech
Mississippi State University ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 0 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at Mississippi State University
With a ranking of #11, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southeast Region list. UT Knoxville is a large public school situated in Knoxville, Tennessee. It awarded 0 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Food & Nutrition at UT Knoxville
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
