The University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona, offers a choice of two nutritional science programs focused on improving metabolism and growth rates in people through the study of biological, agricultural and medical science. Courses are available in dietetics, nutrition, food science and biophysics. Students attending the Nutritional Sciences Department can earn a bachelor's degree, majoring in dietetics or nutrition. Dietetics courses include institutional food service management, nutrition assessment and counseling, as well as community nutrition. Nutrition courses include physics, biology, calculus and chemistry.
Students at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, have the options of earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in nutrition and dietetics or nutrition science. The Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Hospitality Management offers a bachelor's degree in nutrition science with an accreditation in dietetics. Also available are the Master of Science degree, emphasizing nutrition; as well as hotel and restaurant management. A graduate doctorate is available in nutrition, dietetics, and hospitality management with majors in nutrition, or hotel and restaurant management.
Earning a nutritional science degree offered at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is suggested for students preparing to enter professional fields such as dentistry or medicine, or as preparation toward a master's degree or doctorate in biological sciences or nutrition. Students interested in the nutritional science program are free to customize their programs of study by choosing from a broad list of electives in the College of of Life Sciences.
There are two curricula offered at Boston University's Sargent College in Boston, Massachusetts. An undergraduate bachelor's degree is offered in either nutritional science or dietetics as preparation for careers in private practice, the food industry, veterinary or medical fields. The nutritional science program is aimed at studying the biological and chemical sciences and prepares students for graduate studies or employment in the biomedical or research fields. The dietetics program prepares students for careers in healthcare management or clinical nutrition.