2025 Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
2Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
46Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in food science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #107 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Food Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 46 doctor's degrees in food science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other food science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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.
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.
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 Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in food science needs to check out Cornell University. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in food science from Cornell University
Food Science is one of 5 different types of Food Science Technology programs to choose from.
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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
