4+1 Accelerated MS in Nutrition
Fast-track your advanced degree with an accelerated master’s in nutrition.
Nutritionists study the relationship between food and health. If you have a gift for working with people and an aptitude for science, you’ll enjoy this field, with its strong grounding in general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, and microbiology.
Our 4+1 BS/MS in nutrition is rigorous and demanding to offer high-achieving undergraduates a quick pathway to a graduate degree. You can apply in February of your junior or senior year once you’ve completed the undergraduate prerequisites. Application Deadline: February 1st.
The program is 33 credits and requires the completion of six core courses, one public health course, two graduate seminars, and four electives, with one or two of these outside of nutrition.
Benefits list
Master’s Degree in One Year
The 4+1 nutrition degree is a non-thesis program (no original research or written thesis requirement), ideal if you want to get a master’s in one year versus the usual two-year nutrition master’s program. It also provides a productive “gap” year if you’re planning to apply to medical school.
CEPH Accreditation
Every program in the department of nutrition, like every other department within the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, is fully accredited by the Council of Education for Public Health, a key benefit of attending UMass.
Career-Ready Skills
Graduates of this program have the skills to assess nutritional needs, provide counseling and education, and implement dietary plans for individuals or groups. The program can also prepare you for careers as physicians, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and biomedical researchers.
Featured class
Skills and techniques needed to effectively carry out community nutrition programs and nutrition education, including knowledge of agencies and programs, community assessment, legislation, nutrition education, and working with people.
Featured faculty
Lindiwe Sibeko
Department Chair, Nutrition
Maternal and child health in racial/ethnic minorities and low-income populations, breastfeeding & lactation; community-based research; childhood obesity
Claire Norton
Undergraduate Program Director, Nutrition
Didactic Program in Dietetics Director, Nutrition
Focus on dietetics and eating disorders
Zhenhua Liu
Graduate Program Director, Nutrition
Focus on B-vitamins, folate metabolism, nutritional epigenetics, obesity and inflammation, cancer prevention
Application information & deadlines
Fall Application Deadline
Students should submit the application by Feb. 1. for entry into the fall term.
Nutrition
Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the study and application of the relationship between diet, foods, and health.