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Overview for Nutrition Sciences

A scientific program that focuses on the utilization of food for human growth and metabolism, in both normal and dysfunctional states, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the agricultural, human, biological, and biomedical sciences. Includes instruction in food science, biochemistry, physiology, dietetics, food and nutrition studies, biotechnology, biophysics, and the clinical sciences.

Careers for Nutrition Sciences Majors

A major in Nutrition Sciences is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided.

Colleges Offering a Major in Nutrition Sciences

Top 40 U.S. Colleges with the highest percentage of Nutrition Sciences among the 2007-2008 graduating class.

AddInfoCollege Name Degrees Awarded/
Percentage
SelectivityTuition
Bastyr University
Kenmore, WA
 32
(42.7%)
 - 
Life University
Marietta, GA
 8
(13.3%)
 $7,830 
 Russell Sage College
Troy, NY
 11
(5.6%)
 $26,540 
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Simmons College
Boston, MA
 17
(3.5%)
Moderately Selective$30,000 
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, OK
 13
(2.2%)
 - 
Long Island University-C W Post Campus
Brookville, NY
 19
(2.2%)
Most Selective$27,400 
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA
 117
(2.0%)
Moderately Selective$20,021 
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University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
 35
(1.7%)
Moderately Selective$29,682 
Saint Johns University
Collegeville, MN
 7
(1.6%)
Less Selective$28,668 
University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, TX
 11
(1.4%)
Moderately Selective$20,260 
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.