Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition earn a median of $55,753 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $40,535 and $68,442. We rank the 49 U.S. colleges whose Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 2,408 graduates in all. That puts Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition at #83 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
California State University-Long Beach, in California, leads at $68,578, 21% above the median ranked school ($56,449). Most schools are tightly bunched: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $54,646 and $59,703, and the lowest earns $18,314, so outside the leaders the choice of school moves earnings less than the choice of major. 28 of the 49 ranked schools (57%) match or beat the national median.
Public universities dominate the top 20: 19 public, 1 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Across all ranked schools, 92% are public. New York places 6 schools in the top 20, ahead of California (2).
The top 20 schools cost about the same as the rest of the list: a median net price of $17,645 a year, against $16,836 across all 49 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $21,625 in federal loans, about 36% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 2.8 years.
Showing the top 49 of 49 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA Public · 4-year | $68,578 | 83 | $13,151 | $10,440 | 1.3 |
| 2 | San Diego State University San Diego, CA Public · 4-year | $66,649 | 52 | — | $15,364 | 2.1 |
| 3 | SUNY Oneonta Oneonta, NY Public · 4-year | $64,048 | 44 | $18,532 | $19,158 | 2.7 |
| 4 | University of Delaware Newark, DE Public · 4-year | $63,799 | 78 | $25,908 | $17,799 | 2.6 |
| 5 | Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX Public · 4-year | $62,457 | 45 | $20,500 | $19,070 | 2.8 |
| 6 | University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI Public · 4-year | $61,079 | 50 | $19,402 | $21,440 | 4.2 |
| 7 | D'Youville University Buffalo, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $60,998 | 40 | $21,500 | $20,433 | 3.2 |
| 8 | SUNY Buffalo State University Buffalo, NY Public · 4-year | $60,937 | 34 † | $26,450 | $11,346 | 1.8 |
| 9 | State University of New York at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY Public · 4-year | $60,418 | 25 † | $15,513 | $17,156 | 2.8 |
| 10 | Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH Public · 4-year | $60,381 | 36 † | $21,670 | $28,384 | 4.7 |
| 11 | Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Public · 4-year | $60,380 | 45 | $21,625 | $11,297 | 1.7 |
| 12 | Kansas State University Manhattan, KS Public · 4-year | $59,824 | 68 | $24,197 | $19,406 | 3.1 |
| 13 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH Public · 4-year | $59,703 | 25 † | $25,750 | $25,648 | 4.3 |
| 14 | CUNY Queens College Queens, NY Public · 4-year | $59,655 | 36 † | $12,684 | $4,195 | 0.7 |
| 15 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Public · 4-year | $59,649 | 29 † | $20,254 | $14,600 | 2.5 |
| 16 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA Public · 4-year | $59,609 | 26 † | $26,800 | $30,434 | 5.3 |
| 17 | University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI Public · 4-year | $59,392 | 31 † | $23,375 | $17,490 | 3.2 |
| 18 | Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Public · 4-year | $59,211 | 26 † | $27,871 | $15,407 | 2.5 |
| 19 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Public · 4-year | $58,989 | 62 | $22,375 | $19,680 | 3.3 |
| 20 | CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY Public · 4-year | $58,821 | 141 | $9,218 | $3,103 | 0.5 |
| 21 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public · 4-year | $58,821 | 27 † | $20,500 | $17,339 | 3.1 |
| 22 | University of Georgia Athens, GA Public · 4-year | $56,980 | 39 † | $20,524 | $13,936 | 2.4 |
| 23 | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI Public · 4-year | $56,618 | 31 † | $21,500 | $14,559 | 3.1 |
| 24 | Marywood University Scranton, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $56,476 | 30 † | $27,000 | $23,388 | 4.7 |
| 25 | Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI Public · 4-year | $56,449 | 31 † | $23,442 | $15,273 | 2.8 |
| 26 | Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH Public · 4-year | $56,183 | 40 | $24,792 | $20,787 | 4.1 |
| 27 | University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO Public · 4-year | $55,946 | 44 | $15,554 | $17,760 | 4.7 |
| 28 | Ball State University Muncie, IN Public · 4-year | $55,768 | 26 † | — | $14,940 | 3.1 |
| 29 | University of Akron Main Campus Akron, OH Public · 4-year | $55,527 | 52 | $24,233 | $13,946 | 2.9 |
| 30 | Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL Public · 4-year | $55,221 | 48 | $22,500 | $13,391 | 2.8 |
| 31 | Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI Public · 4-year | $55,134 | 66 | $24,877 | $17,597 | 3.5 |
| 32 | University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL Public · 4-year | $54,952 | 78 | $18,445 | $10,154 | 2.0 |
| 33 | Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $54,825 | 94 | $43,424 | $30,498 | 6.0 |
| 34 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Bowling Green, OH Public · 4-year | $54,796 | 45 | $25,856 | $24,022 | 5.1 |
| 35 | University of Vermont Burlington, VT Public · 4-year | $54,726 | 42 | $19,000 | $19,343 | 4.4 |
| 36 | California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA Public · 4-year | $54,717 | 69 | $16,212 | $4,564 | 1.0 |
| 37 | South Dakota State University Brookings, SD Public · 4-year | $54,646 | 25 † | — | $19,841 | 4.5 |
| 38 | Illinois State University Normal, IL Public · 4-year | $54,604 | 77 | $17,750 | $19,398 | 4.2 |
| 39 | Iowa State University Ames, IA Public · 4-year | $54,391 | 80 | $18,546 | $18,589 | 4.3 |
| 40 | North Dakota State University-Main Campus Fargo, ND Public · 4-year | $54,301 | 25 † | $26,625 | $15,543 | 3.6 |
| 41 | Missouri State University-Springfield Springfield, MO Public · 4-year | $53,621 | 26 † | $24,000 | $17,613 | 3.7 |
| 42 | Florida International University Miami, FL Public · 4-year | $52,470 | 94 | $13,500 | $9,288 | 2.1 |
| 43 | East Carolina University Greenville, NC Public · 4-year | $52,463 | 44 | $18,925 | $15,739 | 3.4 |
| 44 | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville, IL Public · 4-year | $52,166 | 26 † | $20,000 | $14,889 | 3.7 |
| 45 | Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH Public · 4-year | $51,687 | 31 † | $27,729 | $12,767 | 3.3 |
| 46 | CUNY Lehman College Bronx, NY Public · 4-year | $50,455 | 112 | $12,012 | $3,148 | 0.9 |
| 47 | Appalachian State University Boone, NC Public · 4-year | $50,403 | 75 | $22,995 | $16,836 | 4.1 |
| 48 | New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces, NM Public · 4-year | $49,080 | 26 † | — | $8,889 | 2.1 |
| 49 | Brigham Young University Provo, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $18,314 | 29 † | — | $15,564 | — |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition (CIP 5131, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 49.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | $66,649 | 3 | California State University-Long Beach |
| New York | $60,418 | 7 | SUNY Oneonta |
| Michigan | $57,719 | 4 | Eastern Michigan University |
| Ohio | $56,183 | 7 | Miami University-Oxford |
| Florida | $54,889 | 4 | Florida State University |
| Illinois | $54,604 | 3 | Northern Illinois University |
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