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2023 Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

8 Colleges
$23,652 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$37,726 Avg Salary

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is the #131 most popular major in the country with 1,214 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in the Southwest Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for nutrition students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Check out the nutrition programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Skysong the best value school in the Southwest Region for food, nutrition and related services students. Located in the city of Scottsdale, ASU - Skysong is a public college with a fairly large student population.

ASU - Skysong undergraduate students pay an average of $13,092 in tuition and fees each year.

ASU - Skysong also claimed a spot on our Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Arizona State University - Skysong

#2

Texas State University

San Marcos, TX
$22,559 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Texas State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best food, nutrition and related services schools in the Southwest Region . Texas State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of San Marcos.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Texas State are $22,559 a year.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Texas State University

$18,186 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Texas Woman’s University is a great value for food, nutrition and related services students. TWU is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Denton.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at TWU are $18,186 per year.

Full Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Texas Woman’s University Report

#4

University of Houston

Houston, TX

Out of the 8 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the # 4 spot on the list. UH is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Houston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UH are $21,891 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UH is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Arizona State University - Tempe is a great value for food, nutrition and related services students. Located in the midsize city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ASU - Tempe are $29,438 per year.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Arizona State University - Tempe

#6

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for food, nutrition and related services students. It came in at #6 on the list. University of Arizona is a very large public school located in the city of Tucson.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at University of Arizona are $35,153 per year.

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$25,243 Average Tuition & Fees

University of New Mexico - Main Campus ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNM are $25,243 per year.

Read full report on Food, Nutrition & Related Services at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

#8

Baylor University

Waco, TX

Baylor University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for food, nutrition and related services students. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Waco, Baylor is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Baylor are $50,232 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Baylor also is in the top 10% of our Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

Full Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Baylor University Report

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State Degrees Awarded
Texas 96
Arizona 92
Oklahoma 0
New Mexico 5

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is one of 7 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies 1,589
General Family & Consumer Sciences 368
Family & Consumer Economics 251
Textile & Apparel Studies 150
Human Sciences Business Services 58

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 8 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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