2025 Best Food & Nutrition Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in food & nutrition, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #161 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of food & nutrition. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 78 bachelor's degrees in food & nutrition during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to food & nutrition students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of food & nutrition students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized food & nutrition related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for food & nutrition students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Food & Nutrition Schools

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 Food & Nutrition Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Food & Nutrition in the Great Lakes Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in food & nutrition.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Food & Nutrition

1

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in food & nutrition needs to look into Benedictine University. Located in the suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in food & nutrition from Benedictine University

2

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

49 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Wayne State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in food & nutrition. Wayne State is a very large public university located in the city of Detroit.More information about a bachelor’s in food & nutrition from Wayne State University

Best Food & Nutrition Colleges by State

Explore the best food & nutrition colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	97
Ohio	612	8
Illinois	558	20
Indiana	535	0

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Food & Nutrition Related Rankings by Major

Food & Nutrition is one of 3 different types of Food, Nutrition & Related Services programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Food & Nutrition

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Human Nutrition	86
Foodservice Systems Administration/Management	5
Other Foods, Nutrition, & Related Services	5

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.