Use your passion for health and wellness to launch a career in nutrition with an online master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics degree online.
Why Earn Your Master’s Degree in Nutrition or Dietetics?
A master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics helps you become an advocate for good nutrition, learn how to effectively communicate important nutritional and diet information to the public and help people achieve a healthier future.
MS in Nutrition and Dietetics
If you’re interested in a career as a registered dietitian, the MS 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.
MS in Nutrition
If you’re already a licensed 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 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.
New Program Option for Graduates of Adelphi’s Nutrition MS Program
Interested in earning an MS in Nutrition and Dietetics so you can become a registered dietitian or pursue another dietetics career? If you already have an MS in Nutrition degree from Adelphi, or are currently enrolled in that program, you can now earn your Nutrition and Dietetics master’s degree in less time.
With Adelphi’s Advanced Pathway plan, you can seamlessly enroll in the new MS in Nutrition and Dietetics MS program and Adelphi will waive the seven overlap courses between both MS courses.
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 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 ’20
A nationally recognized authority in health education, dance fitness and 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 the online master’s degree 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 nutrition 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.
Nutrition Master’s Program Info
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
MS in Nutrition
Applicants to the master’s in Nutrition 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
MS in Nutrition and Dietetics
Applicants to the online master’s in Nutrition and Dietetics program must 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)
All applicants will be required to sit for an interview with the program director either by phone or virtual meeting.
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