Food Science at Virginia Tech

If you plan to study food science, take a look at what Virginia Tech has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and approximately 37,024 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Food Science section at the bottom of this page.

Virginia Tech Food Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Sciences

Virginia Tech Food Science Rankings

The food sciences major at Virginia Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Food Science. 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.

Food Sciences Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the food sciences majors at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech Food Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of food sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical food sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in food sciences at Virginia Tech are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in food sciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	11
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That Food Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in food sciences can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Food Scientists and Technologists	90	$67,950

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Eric T Gunther under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.