Human Health Track
The B.S. Nutrition Human Health Track provides a strong knowledge base and fundamental understanding of nutrition principles supported by a wide range of courses in chemistry, statistics, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, and anatomy and physiology to prepare for a broad range of human health careers.
Our program equips students for dynamic careers in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, dietetics, research, and has competitive acceptance rates to professional programs.
50%
Acceptance Rate
in 2025
Medical School
Nutrition uniquely prepares students for medical school with the only coursework on campus that solely focuses on the human body and human health.
50%
Acceptance Rate
in 2025
Dental School
With a strong foundation in human physiology and metabolism, Nutrition prepares students to enter dental school with a deeper understanding of how diet influences whole-body health.
92%
Acceptance Rate
in 2025
Pharmacy School
With a focus on metabolism in the human body, Nutrition equips students with a unique lens as they enter pharmacy school.
59%
Acceptance Rate
in 2025
Physician’s Assistant School
With an emphasis on human anatomy and physiology, Nutrition prepares students to enter PA school with a deep understanding of how the body functions in health and disease.
#1
Nutrition Program in the United States
Program Details
- Degree: B.S. Nutrition
- Credit Hours: 120 total credit hours
- View sample degree plan
- View program requirements in the Course Catalog
Customize Your Career Path
The Human Health Track provides a wide range of approved electives in order to customize a degree suited to each student’s research interests and career objectives.
100% of our graduates pass the board exams to become a registered dietitian within one year of graduation.
Graduate School
- NUTR 469: Experimental Nutrition Laboratory
- NUTR 489/489H: Mechanisms of Nutrition and Disease
- NUTR 489: Nutrition and Female Reproductive Health
Medical School
- NUTR 412: Nutritional Treatment of Disease
- NUTR 471: Evidence-Based Practice and Synthesis Methods
- NUTR 489/489H: Mechanisms of Nutrition and Disease
- NUTR 489: Nutrition and Female Reproductive Health
- PBSI 107: Introduction to Psychology
- PHYS 201: College Physics I
- PHYS 202: College Physics II
Dental School
- NUTR 489: Mechanisms of Nutrition and Disease
- NUTR 471: Evidence-Based Practice and Synthesis Methods
- PHYS 201: College Physics I
- PHYS 202: College Physics II
Physician Assistant School
- PBSI 107: Introduction to Psychology
Nursing School
- COMM 203: Public Speaking
- PBSI 225: Developmental Lifespan Psychology
- NUTR 366: Nutrients and the Human Body I*
- NUTR 367: Nutrients and the Human Body II*
- NUTR 440: Ethics in Nutrition ad Health*
- NUTR 440: Microbes and Microbiome in Nutrition*
*Students completing these courses for nutrition pre-reqs will also earn a Minor in Nutrition
For more details on our pre-nursing curriculum please take a look at our degree guide.
Pharmacy School
- COMM 203: Public Speaking
- PHYS 201: College Physics I
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