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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Nutrition Science Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 175 degrees in nutrition science annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Nutrition Science Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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.
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in nutrition science. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the nutrition science program earn around $20,764 for their early career.
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).