2025 Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
466Nutrition Degrees Awarded
$39,267Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in food, nutrition & related services is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #135 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for food, nutrition & related services students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 466 degrees in food, nutrition & related services to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Food, Nutrition & Related Services School
The nutrition program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Food, Nutrition & Related Services rankings. We derive our Best Overall Food, Nutrition & Related Services School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Food, Nutrition & Related Services Rankings by Degree Level
The nutrition school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in the Middle Atlantic Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the nutrition degrees they offer, see the list below.
Syracuse University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in food, nutrition & related services. Located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Syracuse is a great university overall.
There were about 34 food, nutrition & related services students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, nutrition degree recipients typically earn about $32,214 at the beginning of their careers.
University of Delaware is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in food, nutrition & related services. Located in the large suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 3 schools for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were about 20 food, nutrition & related services students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, nutrition degree recipients generally make about $39,066 in their early careers.
It is difficult to beat Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus if you want to pursue a degree in food, nutrition & related services. IUP is a moderately-sized public university located in the distant town of Indiana. This university ranks 54th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 34 food, nutrition & related services students who graduated with this degree at IUP in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, nutrition degree recipients generally make an average of $34,593 at the beginning of their careers.
One of 8 majors within the Family, Consumer & Human Sciences area of study, Food, Nutrition & Related Services has other similar majors worth exploring.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The nutrition program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Food, Nutrition & Related Services rankings. We derive our Best Overall Food, Nutrition & Related Services School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
