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Use your passion for health and wellness to launch a career in nutrition with either a master’s degree in nutrition or a master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from Adelphi University, online!
MS in Nutrition
If you’re already a licensed registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and need a master’s degree, the master’s degree in nutrition online from Adelphi allows you to advance your career as a nutrition researcher, educator, administrator, advocate or private practitioner.
Why earn a master’s degree in nutrition online from Adelphi
- Complete a master’s degree in nutrition online at Adelphi 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.
MS in Nutrition and Dietetics
If you’re interested in a career as a registered dietitian, the master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics online from Adelphi prepares you to pass the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s Registration Examination for Dietitians, which leads to the registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) designation. With a master’s 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.
Why earn your master’s degree in nutrition or dietetics online from Adelphi?
- A master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics helps you become a registered dietician who advocates for good nutrition and effectively communicates important nutritional and diet information to the public.
- Complete a master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics online at Adelphi from anywhere in the United States—and easily balance your current work and family life with your educational studies—with our 100 percent online coursework.
- Our nutrition and dietetics program is part of Adelphi’s Advanced Pathway plan, which allows you to complete your master’s degree in less time.
New Advanced Pathway Option for Adelphi’s Nutrition Graduates
Interested in earning an MS in Nutrition and Dietetics to become a registered dietitian or pursue another dietetics career? If you already have an MS in Nutrition from Adelphi, or are currently enrolled in that program, you can now earn your MS in Nutrition and Dietetics in less time.
With Adelphi’s Advanced Pathway plan, you can seamlessly enroll in the new MS in nutrition and dietetics program, and Adelphi will waive the seven overlap courses between both master’s degree programs.
The University will waive the following seven overlap courses:
- 0856-549-001 – Human Nutrition
- 0856-550-001 – Diet Assessment
- 0856-551-001 – Nutrition Through the Lifecycle
- 0856-557-001 – Nutrition and Chronic Disease
- 0856-618-001 – Community Nutrition
- 0856-619-001 – Nutrition Education and Communication
- 0856-729-001 – Practicum in Nutrition
Students completing the Advanced Pathway in nutrition will typically be taking 8 to 10 credits per semester.
All told, students in the Advanced Pathway will complete 41 credits (25 credits of coursework, 16 credits of fieldwork).
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, MS '19
A nationally recognized authority in health education and dance fitness and a plant-based chef
Exceptional Hands-On Learning Even Online
At Adelphi, we believe strongly in the power of hands-on learning and the value it adds to our students’ future careers. In both the master’s degree in nutrition and the master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics online programs, 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 nutrition program faculty local to you, 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.
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The online Nutrition program at Adelphi University has been challenging, comprehensive, and engaging. Plus, the adjuncts and supervisors are regularly accessible, which is extremely important for me.
Application Requirements
Master’s degree in nutrition
Applicants to the online master’s degree in nutrition program must apply via Adelphi’s Graduate Application and 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
Master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics
Applicants to the online master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics program must apply via the DICAS Application and have official transcripts showing a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and completion of the following prerequisite courses:
- 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 online 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.)
- Course-by-course evaluation: All graduate applicants with undergraduate-level work completed outside of the United States will be required to send a course-by-course evaluation of their academic work prepared by a NACES member organization. Adelphi recommends you use The Evaluation Company (TEC) or IEE (discount provided for Adelphi applicants), ECE, or WES, but any NACES member evaluation would be acceptable.
All applicants will be required to sit for an interview with the program director either by phone or virtual meeting.
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Learn about the costs you can expect in our nutrition graduate programs, and discover how scholarships, grants and financial aid packages can put an Adelphi education within reach.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Adelphi’s Online Nutrition Programs
The MS in nutrition program is a part-time, 34-credit online program that is best suited for current RDNs who are looking to complete an MS, as well as other healthcare and wellness professionals interested in expanding their services to include nutrition. The Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND)-accredited MS in nutrition and dietetics is a 62-credit program that includes online coursework and supervised experiential learning and prepares students for a career as a registered dietitian.
An MS in nutrition will put you on the path for a career in public health jobs, WIC, nutrition education, fitness jobs and related fields. Students who earn an MS in nutrition and dietetics find work in clinical dietetics at hospitals or outpatient facilities, as pediatric dietitians or food service managers, or working in community nutrition, research or private practice.
An MS in nutrition and dietetics, with successful completion of all coursework plus required Supervised Experiential Learning, is a necessary step toward becoming a registered dietician. Upon completion, students receive a Verification Statement that allows them to take the RDN credentialing exam.
The Advanced Pathway is for students who completed the MS in nutrition and now want to complete the MS in nutrition and dietetics and become an RDN. Adelphi University doesn’t offer a BS in nutrition.
Both programs have fully online coursework. There are no in-person courses. Our faculty members are based at our Garden City campus and are available for teleconference sessions.
Yes. Local students can be placed in sites with which we have established relationships.
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