General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies degree recipients are Blacksburg, VA, Lincoln, NE, and Scottsdale, AZ. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies degree recipients are Jefferson City, MO, Bluffton, OH, and Framingham, MA. The most common degree awarded to students studying General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies and the types of students that study this field. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University awards the most degrees in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies in the US.
Tuition costs for General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies majors are, on average, $7,207 for in-state public colleges, and $37,896 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies programs are false institutions (N/A total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (1,826 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies, is Public, 4-year or above (1,826 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has the most General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies degree recipients, with 266 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Human Sciences in the United States.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Human Sciences degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Human Sciences (1,510 students).
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Associates Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Human Sciences are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Liberia that hold Human Sciences degrees (3.4 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (5,652 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies majors need more than the average amount of Management of Financial Resources, Quality Control Analysis, and Management of Material Resources.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for General Food, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Financial Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Monitoring, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.
