2024 Best Nutrition Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
19Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in nutrition sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #97 out of 862 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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Nutrition Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 19 doctor's degrees in nutrition sciences to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Nutrition Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree
The nutrition sciences doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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 account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various 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 much a school focuses on nutrition sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other nutrition sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
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 nutrition sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for nutrition sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Nutrition Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Nutrition Sciences Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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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).