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2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
267 Degrees Awarded
$20,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the Plains States region, there were 367 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,300 and $20,607 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 267 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in food, nutrition and related services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food, nutrition and related services programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k.

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nutrition degrees to 148 students in 2019-2020.

UNL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Nebraska - Lincoln is $19,663 for plains states region bachelor’s degree nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at UNL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Mizzou is located in Columbia, Missouri and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 55 bachelors’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k list, Mizzou has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Missouri - Columbia is $19,595 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, 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 students.

Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Mizzou

#3

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #3 spot on the list. UMN Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 13 bachelors’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k list, UMN Twin Cities has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is $19,942 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at UMN Twin Cities

#4

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #4 spot on the list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 19 bachelors’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend South Dakota State is $20,754 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Nutrition students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at South Dakota State

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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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