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2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
17 Degrees Awarded
$28,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master's in California For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is the 131st most popular major in the country with 4,889 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, food, nutrition and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,096 and had an average of $25,351 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 355 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,750 and $17,134 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food, nutrition and related services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the food, nutrition and related services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k.

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #1 spot on the list. Davis, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nutrition degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

UC Davis did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UC Davis are $28,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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