2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in Nebraska (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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska, there were 162 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,500 and $20,024 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,407 and $40,167 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the food, nutrition and related services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska master’s degree nutrition students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in Nebraska (With Aid)

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$19,513 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,342 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s nutrition students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNL, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Nebraska - Lincoln are $19,513.

Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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• Best Value Master’s 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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