2025 Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
dietetics & clinical nutrition services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #79 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for dietetics & clinical nutrition services students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 245 master's degrees in dietetics & clinical nutrition services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of dietetics & clinical nutrition services for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on dietetics & clinical nutrition services students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of dietetics & clinical nutrition services students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for dietetics & clinical nutrition services to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dietetics & clinical nutrition services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dietetics & clinical nutrition services students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
