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2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

3 Ranked Colleges
24 Degrees Awarded
$18,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that 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 Tennessee, there were 96 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,700 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 dietetics and clinical nutrition services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dietetics and clinical nutrition services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great dietetics and clinical nutrition services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the dietetics and clinical nutrition services program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services in Tennessee (With Aid)

#1

East Tennessee State University

Johnson City, Tennessee
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Johnson City, Tennessee, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

ETSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. The yearly cost to attend ETSU is $14,332 for tennessee bachelor’s degree nutrition students with aid.

Full East Tennessee State University Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Report

#2

Carson - Newman University

Jefferson City, Tennessee
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Carson - Newman University landed the #2 spot on the list. Carson - Newman is a private not-for-profit institution located in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Carson - Newman, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $17,471 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Nutrition students with aid per year to attend Carson - Newman University.

Full Carson - Newman Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Report

#3

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lipscomb University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Lipscomb is a small school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 9 bachelors’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $24,749 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Nutrition students with aid per year to attend Lipscomb University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at Lipscomb University

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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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