Nutrition BS
- Major
- BS
- In-Person
- Greeley
4 Years
Program Overview
Do you love food and have a passion for helping others, locally or around the world? Or maybe you are a good communicator who enjoys working with people and is interested in science. Then the field of nutritional science may be a good fit for you.
Nutrition-related health issues impact all ages and stages. In our Nutrition program, you’ll explore nutritional biology, food science, and nutrition across the life span. You will learn how food, metabolism, nutrients and health relate to each other.
Discover how food fuels performance, heals communities and transforms lives. From sports nutrition to community health programs to nutrition education, you’ll gain the knowledge and hands-on experience to make a real difference.
Feed Your Passion for Health and Wellness
Want to specialize? Dive deeper into food service and management skills, preparing for leadership roles in hospitals, schools, corporate wellness programs, or anywhere people need expert nutritional guidance. You’ll be ready for careers in the medical field, personal training, physical therapy, public health, and more.
In the BS in Nutrition program, you take courses in nutrition and the natural and health sciences as well as written communication, mathematics, arts and humanities, history, social and behavioral sciences, multicultural studies and international studies.
Through personal academic advising, we’ll ensure you stay on track to graduate on time. Courses are subject to availability. You will need to consult with your academic advisor for specific information on additional graduation requirements and guidance on course sequences.
View the sample four-year plan in the UNC Catalog.
With a Nutrition minor, you’ll explore human nutrition, biochemistry and physiology. You’ll also study nutrition across different life stages. You’ll graduate with the knowledge you need to make a real difference in people’s lives.
A Nutrition minor is also a great option for anyone planning to attend graduate school in health fields. This includes medical school, sports medicine, physical therapy, and public health.
The Nutrition minor includes three core nutrition courses, one chemistry or biochemistry course and six electives.
The BS in Nutrition will prepare you to begin your career immediately after graduation or to pursue graduate programs in nutrition, public health, nursing, pharmacy, medicine and other fields.
A Nutrition degree can put you on a rewarding path to careers where you can help people live longer, healthier and happier lives.
You’ll be prepared to make a difference in the following fields:
- Public health
- Nutrition research
- School districts
- Food and nutrition management
- Culinary industry
- Public policy or government
- Social services
- Health care, including becoming a physician, nurse, pharmacist, or physician’s assistant
- Corporate wellness
Explore more career paths in Nutrition on the American Society for Nutrition website.
As a Nutrition major, you’ll explore the impact of nutrition and food on health and disease throughout the lifespan. Choose from an incredible range of courses and select elective credits to pursue areas that pique your curiosity.
- Biology
- Human Anatomy
- Physiology
- Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Nutrition Education
- Maternal and Child Nutrition
- Community Nutrition
- Nutrition for Fitness and Athletic Performance
Learn by Doing
No matter how you focus your studies—whether it’s health care interventions, psychology and behavior change, health communication, or food service management—you’ll gain the practical skills that employers are looking for.
You’ll work on real projects with real clients. You’ll practice your skills in community service programs. You’ll have the opportunity to join campus research labs alongside faculty mentors who are advancing the field.
This isn’t just theory. This is preparation for the career you want.
Alumni
Fueling the Troops
Learning from peer-reviewed articles, my professors here and the dietitians that were part of my unit, I think those three things really helped shape me into becoming a better soldier to help people with nutrition and learn more about nutrition.
Katie Wright
B.S., Dietetics
U.S. Army Cadet
Award-winning Chef
I’ve cooked on ABC’s ‘The Chew,’ and that was my actual first competition. I was chosen as one out of 20 in the nation to go to Manhattan to cook live on TV.
DeAndre Smith, known as Chef Cool Dre
Nutrition and Communications
Nutrition minor and Chef
Pride Points
Small classes
You will enjoy plenty of personal attention and interaction among your classmates and professors.
Learn from Faculty
Our courses are taught by a faculty member who is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and brings academic expertise and years of professional experience.
Customize Your Program
Choose from a wide range of courses to study subjects that fit your career objectives and provide a strong foundation in science for graduate school.
Engaging learning environment
Research Opportunities
You’ll gain research experiences focused on human health, how nutrition affects health and fitness, and cultural and geographic factors affecting nutrition.
Learn skills to make an impact
With a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, you can pursue many interesting career paths and graduate programs. Many students with a degree in Nutrition go on to advanced programs. These include medicine, public health, and physician assistant studies.
You’ll learn about:
• Strategies for education and behavior modification for disease prevention
• Nutrition for children, pregnancy and aging adults
• Food science and recipe modification
Career Paths
In our Nutrition program, you’ll be prepared to make a difference in nutritional science and its impact to human health when you graduate. Our graduates have jobs in diverse roles in health and nutrition fields such as:
- Food safety and production
- Food science
- Hospitality
- Marketing
- Medicine
- Nutrition assessment and counseling
- Patient/family education
- Public health, and more
If you are interested in providing nutrition guidance to treat diseases, you might also be interested in the BS in Dietetics.
Get involved!
Join the Student Nutrition and Dietetics Association to meet students with similar interests and connect with the Greeley community. This vibrant student organization hosts food drives, school outreach campaigns and educational fairs.
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