When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in food science technology sits in the middle of the road, ranking #148 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of food science technology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 195 bachelor's degrees in food science technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Food Science Technology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The food science tech bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to food science technology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other food science technology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt food science technology 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 science technology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for food science technology students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Food Science Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in food science technology. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Champaign.
After graduation, food science tech bachelor's recipients usually make an average of $41,150 at the beginning of their careers.
Michigan State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in food science technology. Michigan State is a very large public university located in the city of East Lansing.
Food Science Technology bachelor's degree recipients from Michigan State University receive an earnings boost of around $5,882 above the typical earnings of food science technology majors.
Located in the large city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Food Science Technology bachelor's degree recipients from Ohio State University - Main Campus earn a boost of around $6,429 over the typical income of food science technology graduates.
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).