2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Food Science

FOOD SCIENCE DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in food science are not often found. An average subject awards 6,156 yearly bachelor's degrees; 1,278 people were granted a bachelor's degree in food science last spring, making it the United States of America's 187th most popular major for undergrads. 89 of those students came out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which boasts having the biggest program in the United States, and 219 of those alumni attended schools in California.

It may potentially be challenging to root out the best program, seeing as undergraduate degrees in food science are available at 53 colleges around the country. Four-year degrees in food science are 72.4% less broadly offered than the average major, making it the 268th most commonly available American major.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While just north of 66.7% of degrees in food science last year were bachelor's degrees; 33% were advanced degrees. Food science is the 156th most popular postgrad degree in the US, with 633 degrees awarded. To put that in context, the average subject is 4.4 times more popular among postgrad students than food science.

In Total, 1,911 students received a bachelor's or higher in food science last spring.

ONLINE FOOD SCIENCE DEGREES

48 of those 1,911 students (2.5%) went through remote programs - 3 undergraduate students and 45 postgraduate students. As you can tell, college students majoring in food science online are quite uncommon. It's at the moment the 245th most popular online field with 99.4% less online students than the average subject. For postgrad students, it ranks 167th, and is 92.7% under the US average (616).

Kansas State University​ granted more online four-year degrees in food science than any other school in the United States of America (3).

There are 2 schools coast-to-coast with an online undergraduate degree in food science, making it the 268th most broadly available remote degree in the nation. Just about 5% of institutions giving out the degree even have a remote option, and roughly 50% of the schools awarding the degree online are private.

If you dream to study food science online, you may want to look at Kansas State University, as it has the 6th best food science program in the United States of America. They also offer an additional 72 degrees totally online, so you can try classes in another major. Further, 961 remote undergrads go to the institution, which is 6% of the total undergraduate population.

PARTIALLY ONLINE FOOD SCIENCE DEGREES

• Last May, 355 students completed a four-year degree in food science partially online
• Food science is the 240th most universally available partially online undergraduate degree in the country
• Last May, 412 people received a bachelor's or higher in food science partially online
• The University of Nebraska-Lincoln​ granted 35 partially online bachelor's degrees in food science, more than any other institution in America
• Something like 6/7 of partially online degrees in food science last spring were bachelor's degrees; 14% were grad degrees
• On average, each subject has around 1,368 annual undergrad degrees partially online

IN-PERSON FOOD SCIENCE DEGREES

• Food science is the 183rd most common comprehensively in-person undergraduate degree in the United States of America
• Undergraduate degrees in food science are offered in-person at 1 institutions around the nation
• 71.91% of all college degree in food science are done in-person
• 1.75% of Delaware Valley University's​ last undergraduate class studied food science in-person, higher than any other college in the United States
• Colleges from California granted the most exclusively in-person undergrad degrees in food science last spring (177)
• 83.89% of all graduate degrees in food science are earned completely in-person