Nutrition and Dietetics

Are you passionate about how the food we put in our bodies affects our ability to do.......EVERYTHING?  Do you want to help people have a healthier relationship with their food?  Recover from illness or injury?  Be faster, stronger, and less prone to injury? Generally live a healthier life? Manage their chronic health problems more effectively?

The Nutrition & Dietetics program at EIU can give you the training and experience to do all these things, and to enhance your skill set for other clinical professions.  

Want to explore all the nutrition professions available to you? The BS Nutrition program provides the knowledge and experience to help you decide what direction you want to go, whether that's the graduate program/become an RDN, or one of the many other nutrition career pathways that do not require the RDN credential.

Want to increase your knowledge base about nutrition to enhance your primary area of study? Check out the Nutrition Minor, or maybe consider doing a double major with the BS Nutrition.

Want to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)? The Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) now requires you to have an earned master's degree along with your verification statement that documents you completed an ACEND-accredited dietetics curriculum and 1000 hours of clinical practice. Beginning Fall 2024, the EIU Nutrition & Dietetics Program is launching more ways to help EIU students interested in pursuing the RDN credential. Our new accreditation status as a Coordinated Program means students coming from a non-dietetics background can still pursue the MS Nutrition & Dietetics and RDN credential. Check out the Coordinated Program page for more info!