Future students: Admissions
Wayne State's Department of Nutrition and Food Science strives to achieve excellence in teaching and research to create social impact.
Why study nutrition and food science in Detroit?
- We train our students to be experts in laboratory techniques, to be scientifically literate and intellectually engaged. We seek to build a diverse community and to launch tomorrow's leaders.
- Wayne State has established an array of strategic partnerships to meet the global challenge by creating and maintaining state-of-the-art research facilities and research collaborations with faculty across the campus (School of Medicine, biological sciences, kinesiology, health and sport studies, Karmanos Cancer Institute), as well as international collaborations.
- Our curriculum is strongly based on biological, biochemical and physical sciences. In addition to our dietetics program, the nutrition curriculum provides strong preparation for a variety of health system-based and policy-making career opportunities (e.g., FDA and USDA), as well as for the continuation of education in graduate school in nutrition science, public health (M.P.H.) or other life sciences.
- While providing greater relevance to human health and human disease, Wayne State's curriculum can help fulfill the prerequisites for pre-professional health programs (e.g., medical, dental, pharmacy, physician assistant, physical therapy). By integrating the above sciences with applied and basic nutrition science, we have created a unique experience for students with an interest in science as it applies to human health.