Use your passion for health and wellness to launch a career in nutrition with a nutrition & dietetics degree online.
Why Earn Your Master’s Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics?
Become an advocate for good nutrition, learn how to effectively communicate important nutritional & diet information to the public and help people achieve a healthier future.
If you’re interested in a career as a registered dietitian, the MS in Nutrition and Dietetics prepares you to pass the registration examination for dietitians, which leads to the registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) designation. With a masters degree in nutrition and dietetics under your belt, you’ll be qualified to work with communities in hospitals, schools, nursing homes, public health departments and health and fitness clubs, or counsel individual clients in your own private practice. You can also contribute your expertise in the food service and safety, workplace wellness or research fields.
If you’re already a licensed RDN and need a master’s degree, the MS in Nutrition and Dietetics allows you to advance your career as a nutrition researcher, educator, administrator, advocate or private practitioner.
Why Earn a Master’s Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics Online From Adelphi?
- Complete either master’s in nutrition and dietetics program online from anywhere in the country—and easily balance your studies with work, family and other obligations—with our 100 percent online, asynchronous coursework.
- Learn from leading nutrition professionals who specialize in a wide variety of areas.
- Benefit from a cutting-edge curriculum focused on our country’s most urgent nutritional issues.
The MS Nutrition Program taught me the importance of nutrition facts when it comes to health and wellness in our communities. The information we relay as community nutritionists can help transform communities to become wellness oases.
Kaylenne Brown ’20
A nationally recognized authority in health education, dance fitness and plant based chef
Exceptional Hands-On Learning
At Adelphi, we believe strongly in the power of hands-on learning and the value it adds to our students’ future careers. In the online MS in Nutrition and Dietetics program, your education revolves around a suite of supervising experiential learning rotations, comprising a total of 785 hours of work in professional settings. You’ll be able to locate and secure your own fieldwork preceptors with support and guidance from nursing program faculty, which means you can complete the rotations from anywhere in the country. These experiences ensure that you develop a well-rounded understanding of various subfields—including acute care, long-term care, food service, nutrition research and community nutrition—as well as the ability to tailor your services to diverse populations.
Leverage your passion for health and wellness to take advantage of career opportunities in a growing field.
Program Info
Application Requirements
Applicants to the master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics program online must have official transcripts showing a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA and completion of the following prerequisite courses:
- An undergraduate introductory nutrition course
- An introductory statistics course
- A human anatomy and physiology two-course sequence with laboratory
- A minimum 4-credit chemistry course with laboratory
Applicants to the online MS in Nutrition and Dietetics program must have official transcripts showing a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and completion of the following prerequisite courses:
- An undergraduate introductory nutrition course
- An introductory statistics course
- A human anatomy and physiology two-course sequence with laboratory
- A minimum 4-credit chemistry course with laboratory
- A microbiology course
- An introductory psychology course
- An introductory sociology course
Additional Requirements
In addition to the transcripts and prerequisite courses, applicants to both programs must submit:
- A 500-word essay detailing the reason you are pursuing this degree
- Two letters of recommendation
- A minimum TOEFL score of 80 or a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 for international students whose native language is not English (international students in this program are not eligible for an F-1 visa)
All applicants will be required to sit for an interview with the program director either by phone or virtual meeting.
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