Department of Food Science and Nutrition

Department of Food Science and Nutrition
225 FScN
1334 Eckles Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 612-624-1290
Fax: 612-625-5272

College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

Nutrition Undergraduate Program

Nutrition explores how nutrients and the foods from which they are derived aid the body in growth and development and in maintaining health and wellness. With the national and international concern for the effects of food and nutrition on health and wellness as well as disease, there are many career opportunities for the graduates of this program.

Nutrition has been offered as a major at the University of Minnesota since 1917. Within the Nutrition Undergraduate Program, students may select a program of their choice:

Food Pyramid

 

Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD)

Nutritional Science

Nutrition Minor

Honors

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing tradition of educating outstanding students from Minnesota and around the world, and providing them with Honors opportunities within the colleges. These opportunities and programs are brought together in the University Honors Program.