2025 Best Dietetics/Dietitian Schools in the Plains States Region
7Colleges in the Plains States Region
502Dietetics Degrees Awarded
A degree in dietetics/dietitian is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #207 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Dietetics/Dietitian Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 502 degrees in dietetics/dietitian annually.
Your choice of dietetics/dietitian school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Dietetics/Dietitian School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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.
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Best Schools for Dietetics/Dietitian in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of dietetics degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in dietetics/dietitian has to check out University of Missouri - Columbia. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were about 70 dietetics/dietitian students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.
Iowa State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in dietetics/dietitian. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ames. A Best Colleges rank of #88 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Iowa State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 133 dietetics/dietitian students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent data year.
Missouri State University - Springfield is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in dietetics/dietitian. Missouri State is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Springfield. This university ranks 10th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 62 dietetics/dietitian students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in dietetics/dietitian needs to take a look at University of North Dakota. UND is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Grand Forks. This university ranks 3rd out of 12 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Dakota.
There were approximately 12 dietetics/dietitian students who graduated with this degree at UND in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Manhattan, K -State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #269 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means K -State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 88 dietetics/dietitian students who graduated with this degree at K -State in the most recent data year.
Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, Fontbonne University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 27th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 9 dietetics/dietitian students who graduated with this degree at Fontbonne University in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of dietetics/dietitian school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Dietetics/Dietitian School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
