2025 Best Dietetics/Dietitian Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in dietetics/dietitian, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #142 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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Dietetics/Dietitian Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 99 bachelor's degrees in dietetics/dietitian during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Dietetics/Dietitian School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The dietetics bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality dietetics program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to dietetics/dietitian students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of dietetics/dietitian students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dietetics/dietitian related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dietetics/dietitian students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Dietetics/Dietitian Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Dietetics/Dietitian Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Dietetics/Dietitian in North Carolina

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in dietetics/dietitian.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Bachelor's in Dietetics

1

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

55 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in dietetics/dietitian has to take a look at Appalachian State University. Appalachian State is a very large public university located in the town of Boone.More information about a bachelor’s in dietetics/dietitian from Appalachian State University

2

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

30 Annual Graduates

East Carolina University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in dietetics/dietitian. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in dietetics/dietitian from East Carolina University

3

Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC

13 Annual Graduates

Western Carolina University is a great choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in dietetics/dietitian. Located in the distant town of Cullowhee, WCU is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in dietetics/dietitian from Western Carolina University

Best Dietetics/Dietitian Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Dietetics/Dietitian Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	253
Tennessee	460	23
Georgia	453	30
Kentucky	331	4
Alabama	320	1
Louisiana	306	17
Arkansas	294	83
Mississippi	275	74
West Virginia	223	9

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Rankings in Majors Related to Dietetics

One of 4 majors within the Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services area of study, Dietetics/Dietitian has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.