2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in Mississippi (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,889 people earned their degree in food, nutrition and related services, making the major the 131st most popular in the United States. 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 Mississippi, there were 32 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,300 and $27,176 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,447 and $43,355 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in food, nutrition and related services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food, nutrition and related services programs and 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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Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in Mississippi (With Aid)

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$25,099 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,439 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid. Ole Miss is a large school located in University, Mississippi that handed out 10 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ole Miss, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Mississippi are $25,099.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at University of Mississippi

#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$10,896 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southern Miss, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Miss are $10,896, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Food, Nutrition & Related Services Report

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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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