2025 Best Food & Nutrition Schools in the Great Lakes Region

If you plan on majoring in food & nutrition, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #228 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Food & Nutrition Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 169 degrees in food & nutrition annually.

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Pick Your Food & Nutrition Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Food & Nutrition Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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Best Schools for Food & Nutrition in the Great Lakes Region

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the food & nutrition degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Food & Nutrition

1

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Benedictine University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in food & nutrition. Located in the suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a degree in food & nutrition from Benedictine University

2

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

75 Food & Nutrition Degrees Awarded

Any student pursuing a degree in food & nutrition needs to check out Wayne State University. Wayne State is a very large public university located in the large city of Detroit.More information about a degree in food & nutrition from Wayne State University

Best Food & Nutrition Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	939	8
Michigan	915	119
Illinois	870	47
Indiana	737	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 Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Human Nutrition	172
Foodservice Systems Administration/Management	21
Other Foods, Nutrition, & Related Services	9

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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.