2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 associate degree level specifically, there were 7 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food, nutrition and related services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food, nutrition and related services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Saint Louis Community College

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$6,796 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Louis Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Louis Community College is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 associates’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Saint Louis Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $6,796 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Nutrition students with aid per year to attend Saint Louis Community College.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services (With Aid)

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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