2025 Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #106 out of 363 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.

College Factual reviewed 11 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of food, nutrition & related services. Combined, these schools handed out 553 bachelor's degrees in food, nutrition & related services to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Food, Nutrition & Related Services School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The nutrition 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on food, nutrition & related services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other food, nutrition & related services 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, nutrition & related services 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, nutrition & related services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for food, nutrition & related services students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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, Nutrition & Related Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest 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. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Food, Nutrition & Related Services in the Southwest Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for food, nutrition & related services students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

10 Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Nutrition

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, AZ

31 Annual Graduates

$34,467 Median Starting Salary

$21,460 Median Student Debt

Arizona State University - Tempe is a good option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services. ASU - Tempe is a very large public university located in the city of Tempe.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the nutrition program state that they receive average early career wages of $34,467.

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2

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

57 Annual Graduates

$36,601 Median Starting Salary

$19,580 Median Student Debt

Texas State University is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population.

Food, Nutrition & Related Services bachelor's degree recipients from Texas State University get an earnings boost of about $3,810 over the typical earnings of food, nutrition & related services graduates.

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3

Arizona State University - Skysong
Scottsdale, AZ

83 Annual Graduates

$34,467 Median Starting Salary

$21,460 Median Student Debt

Arizona State University - Skysong is a great option for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services. Located in the midsize city of Scottsdale, ASU - Skysong is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the nutrition program report average early career wages of $34,467.

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4

University of Houston
Houston, TX

134 Annual Graduates

$27,648 Median Starting Salary

University of Houston is a wonderful option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in food, nutrition & related services. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the nutrition program earn around $27,648 in the first couple years of their career.

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5

Baylor University
Waco, TX

18 Annual Graduates

Baylor is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Waco.More information about a bachelor’s in food, nutrition & related services from Baylor University

6

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, OK

78 Annual Graduates

$25,076 Median Starting Salary

$28,416 Median Student Debt

OSU is a very large public university located in the town of Stillwater.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the nutrition program earn about $25,076 in their early career salary.

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7

Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX

24 Annual Graduates

$46,399 Median Starting Salary

Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, TWU is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Those food, nutrition & related services students who get their bachelor's degree from Texas Woman's University make $13,608 more than the average nutrition grad.

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8

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM

18 Annual Graduates

$27,978 Median Starting Salary

UNM is a very large public university located in the city of Albuquerque.

Soon after graduation, nutrition bachelor's recipients usually make about $27,978 at the beginning of their careers.

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9

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX

16 Annual Graduates

Located in the town of Huntsville, SHSU is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in food, nutrition & related services from Sam Houston State University

10

Prairie View A & M University
Prairie View, TX

25 Annual Graduates

PVAMU is a moderately-sized public university located in the rural area of Prairie View.More information about a bachelor’s in food, nutrition & related services from Prairie View A & M University

Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Colleges by State

Explore the best food, nutrition & related services colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	245	555
Arizona	200	244
Oklahoma	190	111
New Mexico	133	28

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Food, Nutrition & Related Services Related Rankings by Major

Food, Nutrition & Related Services is one of 8 different types of Family, Consumer & Human Sciences programs to choose from.

Nutrition Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Food & Nutrition	267
Human Nutrition	223
Other Foods, Nutrition, & Related Services	54
Foodservice Systems Administration/Management	9

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies	1,235
General Family & Consumer Sciences	518
Family & Consumer Economics	406
Textile & Apparel Studies	86
Human Sciences Business Services	55

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.