by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Southwest region, there were 553 food & nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 146 food & nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in food & nutrition. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in food & nutrition.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree food & nutrition students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lamar University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Beaumont, Texas, and it awarded 78 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Skysong is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 58 masters’s food & nutrition degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Woman’s University is a fairly large public school situated in Denton, Texas. It awarded 6 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at Texas Woman’s University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 26 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Food & Nutrition at Arizona State University - Tempe
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 4 masters’s food & nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 our data sources and methodologies