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Most Popular Schools for Nutrition Sciences Major & Degree Program

A scientific program that focuses on the utilization of food for human growth and metabolism, in both normal and dysfunctional states, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the agricultural, human, biological, and biomedical sciences. Includes instruction in food science, biochemistry, physiology, dietetics, food and nutrition studies, biotechnology, biophysics, and the clinical sciences.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-Davis 185 2% $35,177
2 University of Arizona 148 2% $29,217
3 California State University-Los Angeles 136 2% $26,139
4 Texas Woman's University 135 4% $20,272
5 San Diego State University 131 1% $29,318
6 Texas Tech University 111 1% $24,472
7 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 108 1% $36,652
8 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 107 1% $23,977
9 University of Florida 107 1% $21,211
10 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 105 2% $28,891
11 San Jose State University 104 1% $29,193
12 California State University-Long Beach 100 1% $24,738
13 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 99 1% $26,231
14 Tufts University 97 3% $73,500
15 University of California-Berkeley 92 1% $38,066
16 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 92 1% $27,898
17 Columbia University in the City of New York 92 1% $76,856
18 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 91 1% $30,913
19 California State University-Chico 89 2% $24,624
20 New York University 89 1% $73,566
21 University of Wisconsin-Madison 87 1% $26,025
22 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 82 2% $28,302
23 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 81 1% $32,443
24 Metropolitan State University of Denver 78 2% $9,066
25 Kansas State University 71 1% $24,923
26 Bastyr University 71 33% N/A
27 The Sage Colleges 70 9% $46,600
28 Northeastern University Lifelong Learning Network 70 2% N/A
29 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 69 2% $33,750
30 University of Connecticut 62 1% $32,404
31 University of North Carolina at Greensboro 60 1% $21,297
32 Michigan State University 59 1% $28,862
33 Auburn University 57 1% $31,590
34 University of Vermont 55 2% $34,210
35 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 55 1% $27,476
36 Boston University 54 1% $72,618
37 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 51 1% $30,360
38 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 50 1% $31,510
39 University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center 49 6% N/A
40 California State University-San Bernardino 48 1% $23,878
41 Texas A & M University-College Station 47 0% $29,506
42 Iowa State University 46 1% $21,186
43 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 42 0% $30,298
44 Dominican University 42 4% $46,175
45 University of Nevada-Las Vegas 41 1% $24,035
46 Cornell University 40 1% $73,904
47 University of Nevada-Reno 39 1% $25,039
48 University of Georgia 39 0% $26,688
49 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 35 1% $29,367
50 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 33 1% $24,105
51 San Francisco State University 33 0% $27,480
52 Bowling Green State University-Main Campus 32 1% $24,915
53 Brigham Young University-Provo 32 0% $18,776
54 College of Saint Benedict 30 6% $58,668
55 Mississippi State University 29 1% $24,957
56 University of Saint Joseph 28 3% $51,901
57 University at Buffalo 27 0% $27,758
58 University of Southern Indiana 27 1% $21,081
59 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27 0% $23,811
60 University of Northern Colorado 26 1% $25,494
61 La Salle University 25 2% $47,110
62 University of Hawaii at Manoa 23 1% $29,858
63 Case Western Reserve University 22 1% $67,332
64 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 22 0% $24,486
65 Drexel University 21 0% $70,223
66 University of Central Oklahoma 20 1% $24,091
67 University of Utah 20 0% $24,472
68 University of Kansas 20 0% $26,566
69 Syracuse University 19 0% $70,636
70 Long Island University 19 0% $56,283
71 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus 18 1% $7,520
72 Simmons University 16 1% $59,880
73 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 16 0% $27,638
74 University of the District of Columbia 15 2% $7,168
75 California Baptist University 15 1% $47,694
76 Rush University 15 4% N/A
77 Tulane University of Louisiana 15 0% $72,296
78 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 14 0% $30,552
79 Chapman University 14 1% $73,182
80 Southeast Missouri State University 13 1% $21,570
81 Howard University 13 1% $44,651
82 Purdue University-Main Campus 13 0% $22,822
83 Tulsa Community College 12 0% $5,029
84 Canisius College 12 1% $42,288
85 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10 0% $30,102
86 University of the Incarnate Word 10 0% $48,628
87 University of Delaware 10 0% $29,342
88 Saint Johns University 10 2% $57,809
89 University of Kentucky 9 0% $30,101
90 Concordia College at Moorhead 9 2% $51,798
91 Baylor University 9 0% $62,527
92 University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne 9 1% $43,970
93 Pepperdine University 8 0% $73,002
94 New York Institute of Technology 6 0% $58,496
95 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 6 1% N/A
96 San Antonio College 5 0% $4,311
97 McNeese State University 5 0% $21,526
98 Central Washington University 5 0% $23,201
99 University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences 5 1% N/A
100 Huntington University of Health Sciences 5 19% $8,438

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Nutrition Sciences program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.