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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Salary

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Washington for Nutrition for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 4,858 people earned their degree in food, nutrition and related services, making the major the 135th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, food, nutrition and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,748 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.
Across Washington, there were 22 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,992 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,905 and $22,558 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food, nutrition and related services programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the food, nutrition and related services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Washington for Nutrition for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Washington for Nutrition for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for washington bachelor’s degree vets studying nutrition.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Washington for Nutrition for a Bachelor’s. Central Washington University is a fairly large public school situated in Ellensburg, Washington. It awarded 16 bachelors’s nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.
CWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” list.Our most recent data shows that 711 of the 11,174 students enrolled at CWU were GI Bill® students, of which 327 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,593. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. CWU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.