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2023 Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$16,643 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,981 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 155 degrees and certificates were awarded to food, nutrition and related services students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #121 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for nutrition students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for nutrition majors pursuing a .

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for food, nutrition and related services students. ECU is a very large public school located in the small city of Greenville.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ECU are $7,297 per year.

ECU excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in North Carolina list.

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$6,733 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at North Carolina A & T State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best food, nutrition and related services schools in North Carolina. Located in the large city of Greensboro, NC A&T is a public school with a fairly large student population.

NC A&T undergraduate students pay an average of $6,733 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent programs at Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best food, nutrition and related services schools in North Carolina. JWU Charlotte is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Charlotte.

JWU Charlotte undergraduate students pay an average of $35,900 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Nutrition majors at JWU Charlotte take out an average of $27,000 in student loans while working on their egree. For students who choose a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly student loan payment is $436.

In addition to its great value ranking, JWU Charlotte is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Schools in North Carolina list.

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

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 21
Virginia 315
Florida 17
Tennessee 62
Kentucky 64
South Carolina 38
Arkansas 88
Alabama 301
Mississippi 25

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is one of 7 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Nutrition

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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