MS in Integrated Nutrition
One year. One integrated experience. Your path to becoming an RDN.
Nutrition reaches far beyond any single area of practice. Today’s professionals work across clinical care, sports performance, public health, food systems, research, and culinary nutrition. The MS in Integrated Nutrition brings those facets together into one graduate experience.
Integrated Reflects What You Learn — and How You Learn It
The program combines advanced graduate coursework with the Supervised Practice Experience required to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Across three consecutive semesters — summer, fall, and spring — you move between coursework, hands-on practice, and applied research.
What a Week Looks Like
| One day a week | In-person graduate coursework on campus |
|---|---|
| Remaining days | Up to 32 hours of Supervised Practice Experience at sites across greater Memphis |
| Throughout | Online coursework and progress on your applied graduate project |
The connections happen in real time. A concept discussed in class may be something you encounter in practice that same week, and questions that surface in the field become classroom conversations and research ideas.
Your Interests. Your Experience. Your Future.
There’s no single path to a career in nutrition, and no reason every graduate experience should look the same. You’ll build the broad knowledge required for entry-level dietetics practice while gaining exposure across the field:
Clinical NutritionPediatricsSports & PerformanceCommunity & Public HealthFood Service & ManagementWellnessCulinary NutritionResearch
Through Supervised Practice Experiences, applied projects, and mentorship, you can shape your education around the professional you want to become. You may enter knowing exactly where you’re headed, or discover an entirely new area along the way. Both are part of the experience.
Memphis Is Part of the Experience
As a major metropolitan area and healthcare hub, Memphis offers a rich environment for learning about nutrition across populations, settings, and stages of life. Just as importantly, it shows how food, health, culture, access, and community intersect — preparing graduates to work thoughtfully with the people they’ll serve.
Memphis isn’t simply where you go to graduate school. It becomes part of how you learn.
More Than Coursework
Every student completes an outcomes-based applied project, identifying a question relevant to nutrition practice and working through inquiry, application, evaluation, and professional communication.
By graduation, you will have:
- Earned your Master of Science degree
- Completed more than 1,000 hours of Supervised Practice Experience
- Finished and presented an applied graduate project
- Met all required ACEND competencies
Your Path to Becoming an RDN
Finish an ACEND-accredited program and earn a DPD Verification Statement.
Graduate education and 1,000+ hours of supervised practice, combined into 12 months.
Administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) to earn the RDN credential.
Licensure follows the RD/RDN credential and varies by state. Review Tennessee licensure or requirements by state from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
RDNs maintain the credential through continuing professional education throughout their careers.
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The University of Memphis program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) through December 31, 2031. ACEND is the accrediting agency for programs preparing students as Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Nutrition and Dietetics Technicians, Registered.
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