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Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Lincoln University

Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Lincoln University

What traits are you looking for in a nutrition school? To help you decide if Lincoln University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's nutrition program.

LU Missouri is located in Jefferson City, Missouri and approximately 2,012 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Food, Nutrition & Related Services section at the bottom of this page.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition

The nutrition major at LU Missouri is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Food, Nutrition & Related Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Nutrition Student Demographics at LU Missouri

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the nutrition majors at Lincoln University.

64% Women
77% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 36% of nutrition bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women. The typical nutrition bachelor's degree program is made up of only 19% men. So male students are more repesented at LU Missouri since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 40% more racial-ethnic minorities in its nutrition bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Lincoln University with a bachelor's in nutrition.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 13
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 1
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 5

If you plan to be a nutrition major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Lincoln University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Food & Nutrition 26

Careers That Nutrition Grads May Go Into

A degree in nutrition can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MO, the home state for Lincoln University.

Occupation Jobs in MO Average Salary in MO
Food Preparation and Serving Worker Supervisors 18,830 $34,010
Institution and Cafeteria Cooks 13,610 $24,900
Food Service Managers 2,820 $53,390
Dietitians and Nutritionists 1,440 $54,030
Dietetic Technicians 1,070 $23,470

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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