Degree Outcomes

• Human Nutrition and Dietetics prepares students for positions in clinical and community health settings, food and nutritional management industries, and graduate programs in nutrition and public health. Graduates have the necessary prerequisites for admission into the post-baccalaureate certificate dietetic internship program required to become a registered dietitian.
• Nutrition and Wellness prepares students for careers in voluntary and community health organizations, public health nutrition, health care, government, worksite wellness programs, and the fitness industry.
• Nutrition Science prepares students for medical, dental, and other health-related professional schools; graduate programs in biomedical and nutrition sciences; and employment in the biotechnology, food, nutritional supplement, and pharmaceutical industries.
• Graduate employers include Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital; the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program; departments of public health; Winthrop University; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Kentucky; Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; and Cooperative Extension.