Your graduate degree can lead to diverse and rewarding career opportunities. The graduate program in Nutrition and Food Management is a flexible research-based program to meet each students' professional and career goals. The additional courses to obtain goals are focused around each student's interest. A review of faculty interests emphasizes that the department has opportunities in community nutrition, dietetic management, foodservice management, food science, and nutritional science.
Coursework is done in the department and throughout campus.
Oregon State University is a diverse campus with many opportunities to learn more about the area you are interested in and relate it to foods, foodservice management, or nutrition. Research may take place on campus, in the community, throughout the state, at Oregon Health Sciences, University or even in a students own community external to Oregon and the United States. Upon arriving on campus, if the student has not identified a major professor or specific research program, the students get acquainted with each professor and research emphasis within the department. When the student and a graduate faculty member mutually agree on a common interest, the student begins to build the program focusing on their interests. Once the student and major professor reach a consensus, a Graduate Committee is formed.