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Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Virginia Tech

Food, Nutrition & Related Services at Virginia Tech

If you plan to study food, nutrition & related services, 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 has a total student population of 37,024.

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
  • Master’s Degree in Nutrition

The nutrition major at Virginia Tech 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.

There were 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in nutrition, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Nutrition Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

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

78% Women
28% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 22% of nutrition bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women. The typical nutrition bachelor's degree program is made up of only 19% men. So male students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

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About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in nutrition 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 nutrition.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 33
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 20
White 184
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 18

100% Women
33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 0% of nutrition master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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Of the students who received a nutrition master's degree from Virginia Tech, 67% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

The following nutrition concentations are available at Virginia Tech. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Virginia Tech. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Food & Nutrition 283

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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Food Preparation and Serving Worker Supervisors 27,380 $37,070
Institution and Cafeteria Cooks 7,850 $29,400
Food Service Managers 3,280 $65,800
Dietitians and Nutritionists 1,440 $61,550
Dietetic Technicians 410 $32,430

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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