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Best Value Colleges for Nutrition Sciences

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

Schools Ranked

$31,065

Avg. Earnings

9 yrs

Best Payback

2,254

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK · Public	$21,725	$44,649	9 yrs
2	College of Saint Benedict Saint Joseph, MN · Private	$19,835	$38,906	20.3 yrs
3	Russell Sage College Troy, NY · Private	$24,877	$39,153	24 yrs
4	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC · Public	$14,424	$36,992	29 yrs
5	University of Vermont Burlington, VT · Public	$17,585	$36,488	47.3 yrs
6	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH · Public	$20,867	$35,416	200.6 yrs
7	Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA · Public	$17,235	$35,274	251.6 yrs
8	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Public	$13,423	$32,569	N/A
9	University of Georgia Athens, GA · Public	$15,037	$20,140	N/A
10	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI · Public	$20,557	$32,284	N/A
11	University of California-Davis Davis, CA · Public	$14,193	$28,697	N/A
12	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ · Public	$20,927	$27,048	N/A
13	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT · Public	$20,344	$29,141	N/A
14	University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus Waterbury, CT · Public	$10,112	$29,141	N/A
15	University of Connecticut-Avery Point Groton, CT · Public	$9,414	$29,141	N/A
16	University of Connecticut-Stamford Stamford, CT · Public	$15,152	$29,141	N/A
17	University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus Hartford, CT · Public	$10,515	$29,141	N/A
18	University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH · Public	$20,896	$31,423	N/A
19	Cornell University Ithaca, NY · Private	$9,785	$25,774	N/A
20	Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, CO · Public	$14,679	$32,747	N/A
21	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI · Public	$10,364	$32,925	N/A
22	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ · Public	$13,644	$25,615	N/A
23	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN · Public	$12,911	$34,603	N/A
24	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN · Public	$22,476	$21,234	N/A
25	University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV · Public	$11,929	$28,753	N/A
26	University of Nevada-Reno Reno, NV · Public	$15,106	$31,236	N/A
27	Auburn University Auburn, AL · Public	$23,468	$21,964	N/A
28	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI · Public	$15,183	$32,925	N/A
29	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL · Public	$14,499	$33,281	N/A
30	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA · Public	$19,623	$28,236	N/A
31	Texas Woman's University Denton, TX · Public	$10,508	$30,988	N/A
32	University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC · Public	$13,214	$29,882	N/A
33	University of Southern Indiana Evansville, IN · Public	$14,486	$29,685	N/A
34	University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO · Public	$14,111	$30,409	N/A
35	University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio, TX · Private	$23,172	$33,993	N/A
36	Brigham Young University Provo, UT · Private	$12,676	$17,162	N/A

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Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.