Nutrition and Dietetics (M.S.) Admission
Program Eligibility
- Current undergraduate students at SDSU with a declared major in nutrition and dietetics or any declared major who meet prerequisite and corequisite requirements.
- Minimum of a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
- Minimum cumulative science GPA of 2.5 on a 3.0 scale. Science courses included in science GPA calculation are CHEM 106 or Higher General Chemistry, CHEM 108 or Higher Biochemistry, BIOL 221 Human Anatomy, BIOL 325 Human Physiology and MICR 231 Microbiology.
- The prerequisite courses must be completed prior to start of the fall semester in the year accepted into the program.
- The corequisite courses must be completed prior to start of the fall semester in the second year of the program.
- Prospective students transferring from an accredited university outside of SDSU must complete a transfer preevaluation form to determine which credits meet the required prerequisite courses. The program is not participating in the DICAS match. All applicants must be enrolled as SDSU students by the spring in which they apply.
Application Status: Open
For more details about the fall 2026 start date, please check out the links below.
Accepted Prior Assessed Learning
Current SDSU students or graduates of SDSU (within the past three years) who have completed the following courses will not be required to complete them again if accepted into the program but will be required to provide evidence of learning in meeting certain competencies as indicated in the prior assessed learning policy. Prior assessed learning is not evaluated prior to or as part of the application process. Prior assessed learning is evaluated after the student is accepted into the program. Prior assessed learning for the following courses will not be considered for the following courses for transfer students but will be considered for current students or graduates of SDSU who have graduated within the past three years.
- HMGT 251 Foodservice Sanitation (one credit)
- HMGT 380 Foodservice Operations and Purchasing Management (three credits)
- HSC 200 Complementary and Integrative Health Care (three credits)
- MGMT 360 Organization and Management (three credits)
- NUTR 323 Nutrition Across the Lifecycle (three credits)
- NUTR 141/L Food Principles (four credits)
- NURS 323 Introduction to Pathophysiology (three credits)
- HLTH 479/L Health Promotion Programming and Evaluation (two credits)
- NUTR 422 Advanced Human Nutrition and Metabolism (four credits)
- EHS 319 Life, Love and Money (two credits)
- CHRD 475 Motivational Interviewing and Wellness Counseling (three credits) NDMS Semester 4 Spring
- LDR 435 Organizational Leadership and Team Development (three credits) NDMS Semester 4 Spring
Not Accepted Prior Assessed Learning
Transfer credits or consideration of prior assessed learning for completion of nutrition and dietetics (M.S.) program competencies will not be accepted for the following list of courses. Students who may have already completed the following courses during prior undergraduate coursework will be required to take these courses again during the semester indicated as part of the plan of study. These courses are not considered for prior assessed learning because they are integrated into the competency-based model with associated experiential learning experiences with practicum courses NUTR 695 or they are part of the graduate plan of study. Completion of these courses at any other nutrition and dietetics (M.S.) program semester other than what is indicated below will not be considered for prior assessed learning of competency completion or transfer credits. There are seven semesters in the nutrition and dietetics (M.S.) program.
- NUTR 322 Nutrition Assessment (three credits) NDMS Semester One Fall
- HMGT 381/L Quantity Food Production and Service (three credits) NDMS Semester Two Spring
- NUTR 341/L Food Science for Nutrition and Dietetics (four credits)
- HLTH 475 Principles of Community Health Education (three credits) NDMS Semester Four Spring
- NUTR 487 Professionalism I (one credit) NDMS Semester One Fall
- NUTR 488 Professionalism II (one credit) NDMS Semester Three Fall
- NUTR 560 Nutrigenomics (three credits) NDMS Semester Three Fall
- NUTR 523 Medical Nutrition Therapy I (three credits) NDMS Semester Three Fall
- NUTR 695 Practicum (three credits) NDMS Semester Three Fall
- NUTR 525 Medical Nutrition Therapy II (three credits) NDMS Semester Four Spring
- NUTR 695 Practicum (three credits) NDMS Semester Four Spring
- Any 700-level graduate courses that may have been taken prior to acceptance into the nutrition and dietetics (M.S.) program will not be considered as a transfer credit and will not be considered as prior assessed learning for completion of competencies.
