2025 Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
40Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in food science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #107 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for food science students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 40 doctor's degrees in food science to qualified students.
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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 science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of food science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized food science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for food science students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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One of 5 majors within the Food Science Technology area of study, Food Science has other similar majors worth exploring.
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Notes and References
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
