If you plan on majoring in nutrition science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #124 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Nutrition Science Schools in Colorado ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 176 degrees in nutrition science annually.
Your choice of nutrition science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for nutrition science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Nutrition Science Schools in Colorado list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the nutrition science degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat Colorado State University - Fort Collins if you want to pursue a degree in nutrition science. Located in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 66 nutrition science students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year. Nutrition Science degree recipients from Colorado State University - Fort Collins get an earnings boost of about $5,562 above the typical earnings of nutrition science majors.
Any student pursuing a degree in nutrition science has to look into Metropolitan State University of Denver. Located in the large city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 24th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were roughly 105 nutrition science students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the nutrition science program earn about $37,213 in their early career salary.
University of Northern Colorado is a good choice for students interested in a degree in nutrition science. University of Northern Colorado is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Greeley. This university ranks 13th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 5 nutrition science students who graduated with this degree at University of Northern Colorado in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, nutrition science degree recipients usually make about $39,258 in their early careers.
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 nutrition science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for nutrition science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
