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2023 Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$27,312 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,713 Avg Salary

With 51 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, food, nutrition and related services is the #204 most popular major in Illinois.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for nutrition students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

Our 2023 rankings named Western Illinois University the best value school in Illinois for food, nutrition and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. WIU is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Macomb.

WIU undergraduate students pay an average of $13,297 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Benedictine University is a great value for food, nutrition and related services students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Benedictine U are $32,280 per year.

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#3

Bradley University

Peoria, IL

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Bradley University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value food, nutrition and related services schools in Illinois. Bradley is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Peoria.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Bradley are $36,360 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Bradley also did well on our Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Explore all the Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 179
Ohio 159
Indiana 0
Wisconsin 0

One of 7 majors within the area of study, food, nutrition and related services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies 42,112
Textile & Apparel Studies 3,313
General Family & Consumer Sciences 2,906
Family & Consumer Economics 1,454
Human Sciences Business Services 704

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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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