2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 5,820 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,082 and had an average of $28,428 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 14 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,900 and $33,332 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent dietetics and clinical nutrition services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the dietetics and clinical nutrition services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$12,123 Average Net Price

$31,851 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. South Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s nutrition degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

SMCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $12,123 for maine associate degree nutrition students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Southern Maine Community College.

Read full report on Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at SMCC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services (Income $48-$75k)

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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.

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