You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Bachelor's Degree in food processing. It is ranked #294 out of 363 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Food Processing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 43 bachelor's degrees in food processing to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on food processing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other food processing students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt food processing students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized food processing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for food processing students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Food Processing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Kansas State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in food processing. K -State is a large public university located in the small city of Manhattan.
Those food processing students who get their bachelor's degree from Kansas State University receive $13,774 more than the typical food processing graduate.
It's difficult to beat Morningside College if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in food processing. Located in the city of Sioux City, Morningside is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the food processing program report average early career wages of $48,505.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
