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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,901 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,243 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.

The Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value master'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 master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Our 2023 rankings named Benedictine University the best value school in Illinois for food, nutrition and related services students working on their master’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 graduate students at Benedictine U are $19,640 per year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a great value for food, nutrition and related services students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SIUC are $16,162 a year.

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Explore all the Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools 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 2 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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