2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 5,598 people earned their degree in nutrition sciences, making the major the 136th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 397 nutrition sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 87 nutrition sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in nutrition sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in nutrition sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree nutrition sciences students.
Top 7 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nutrition Sciences in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Louis University is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 28 masters’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Full SLU Nutrition Sciences Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeast Missouri State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s nutrition sciences students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nutrition Sciences at Southeast Missouri State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. This large school is located in Lawrence, Kansas, and it awarded 23 masters’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, 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 85%.
Read full report on Nutrition Sciences at University of Kansas
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #4 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Manhattan, Kansas, and it awarded 14 masters’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Nutrition Sciences at K -State
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school awarded 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s nutrition sciences students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Nutrition Sciences at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Iowa State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Iowa State University is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, 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 88%.
Full Iowa State Nutrition Sciences Report
University of Nebraska - Lincoln came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nutrition Sciences Major in the Plains States Region ranking. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 1 masters’s nutrition sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Nutrition Sciences Report
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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