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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Food, Nutrition & Related Services is the 135th most popular major in the country with 4,365 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , food, nutrition & related services graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $34,748 and had an average of $25,807 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 325 food, nutrition & related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,669 and $23,183 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 80 food, nutrition & related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in food, nutrition & related services. That schools that top this list have a program in food, nutrition & related services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree nutrition students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 14 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at South Dakota State
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region list. North Dakota State University is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 29 masters’s nutrition degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at North Dakota State University - Main Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 22 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at UNL
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Missouri. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region list. UCM is a public institution located in Warrensburg, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at UCM
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region list. This fairly large school is located in Manhattan, Kansas, and it awarded 10 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Kansas State University
Iowa State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #6. This large school is located in Ames, Iowa, and it awarded 3 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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With a ranking of #7, Graceland University - Lamoni did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Lamoni, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s nutrition students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Graceland Lamoni
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
