Food and Nutrition

Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders in Dietetics and Nutrition

At the completion of the Food and Nutrition Program, our graduates will be able to:

• Evaluate the role of nutrition in optimizing health throughout the lifecycle and respond to harmful nutrition practices.
• Demonstrate knowledge of nutrition as it applies to food service, dietetics and wellness.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and ability to apply management principles to nutrition and food service.
• Present and evaluate food and nutrition education programs to a variety of audiences.
• Assess the role that behavior, economics, and dietary supplements have on planning and eating healthy diets.
• Demonstrate basic food preparation and presentation skills.
• Apply food science knowledge.
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills in food service, dietetics and wellness.

Typically, 100% of USI Dietetics graduates are accepted into internships (national average is 65%).

After completion of the internship program, the graduate is eligible to take the national registration exam to become a Registered Dietitian (RD).

Since the program started in 2001, 88% of all USI Dietetics graduates who have taken the RD exam have passed within one year following first attempt.