Two departments at Cornell University offer studies related to food anthropology. Cornell's Department of Nutritional Sciences offers an undergraduate degree, and graduate studies at the master's and Ph.D. levels are also available. Students can specialize in molecular nutrition, human nutrition, community nutrition and international nutrition, among other dietary-related subjects. Cornell's Department of Food Science offers undergraduate and graduate degrees with three options: food science, food operations and management, and food biotechnology.
A doctorate in nutritional anthropology is available in the heartland. Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, offers a Ph.D. program in the anthropology of food. According to its website, the program focuses on "practical dimensions and ramifications of food production, consumption and sharing, and the symbolic and ideological meanings attached to food." Other degree programs are offered in New York and Boston.
In the Northeast, New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development offers several programs that fit under the broad umbrella of nutritional anthropology. It offers undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs in four areas: nutrition and dietetics, food studies, food and restaurant management, and public health. The entire college is dedicated to the social science perspective.
Boston University Metropolitan College offers an MLA in gastronomy. The college says this multidisciplinary program encompasses the arts, the humanities, and the natural and social sciences.