If you plan on getting your master's degree in nutrition science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #99 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Nutrition Science Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 351 master's degrees in nutrition science to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Nutrition Science School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of nutrition science for getting your master's degree school matters. 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 for a Master's Degree 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 master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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 nutrition science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of nutrition science students who choose to seek a master'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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for nutrition science to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nutrition science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for nutrition science students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Nutrition Science Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in nutrition science needs to take a look at New York University. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Nutrition Science master's degree recipients from New York University receive an earnings boost of about $15,277 above the average income of nutrition science majors.
Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in nutrition science. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the nutrition science program make an average of $48,153 for their early career.
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).
Your choice of nutrition science for getting your master's degree school matters. 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:
