Where can your student study nutrition and dietetics?

• 251 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's nutrition and dietetics program: 245 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 6 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (261), Purdue University Global (254), Kansas State University (187).
• 19 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo — Dietetics & Food Administration/Nutritional Science, Fall 2025: 633 applied, 296 admitted (46.8%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Fresno — 95.1% (41 applied, 39 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: University of California-Berkeley, $79,391.
• Lowest average net price with aid: CUNY Hunter College, $2,984 per year.

A college on this page with no admit rate is one that appears through federal earnings data: it grants the degree but does not report admissions for the major. Where a rate is reported, it counts first-year applicants who named the major, and the lowest one in California is Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at 46.8%. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (19 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

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Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.

Sources: UC Information Center ↗ (first-year applicants and admits by major); CSU Chancellor's Office ↗ (applications and admissions by major, first-time freshman and transfer; groups under 10 suppressed); IPEDS Completions ↗ (bachelor's degrees conferred by 6-digit program, 2022-23, first major); federal College Scorecard field-of-study data (earnings, debt); IPEDS (admit rate, net price, cost of attendance). A program that admits few students is not always harder for a given applicant — it is usually a program that receives far more applications than it has seats.

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