Food Science and/or Nutrition??

College Majors
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<p>Hey everyone,
I'm looking at several different schools right now because I am unhappy with engineering right now, to make a long story short. I am still interested in science and chemistry, and I have always been interested in food and nutrition, so I'm curious as to which schools have notable programs in food science and/or nutrition?
I'm a little lost right now, but to me, it seems like Rutgers has a fairly decent program, and beyond that, I don't know.
I would prefer they be on the East coast, but they don't have to be.</p>

<p>Also, I had a ~3.8 UW GPA in high school, took all honors and AP, did lots of ECs, won some awards. In college, at Georgia Tech, I have about a 2.82 right now (!!!!! I know :/ ). Do you think I would even stand a chance at Rutgers? GT is famous for being very rigorous, so do you think they would acknowledge that I am coming from a rigorous engineering school?</p>

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<p>HAHA, I am in the exact same situation and I'm at Tech too. Umm, I'm looking to transfer to Maryland for Kineseology, like personal training and such. I'd also like to know the bit on gpa, because mines a little lower than yours :(</p>

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<p>Haha, wow, what is your major? I'm chemical engineering.</p>

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<p>MechE, what year are you?</p>

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<p>uconn has a very good program</p>

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<p>Second year.</p>

<p>And thank you.</p>

<p>Anyone know anything about UMD's or Rutgers' programs?</p>

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<p>I know Kansas State has a really good program. They also have a well known Bakery Science department.</p>

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<p>Mmmmm, bakery science -- I bet that major could get a person lots of friends</p>

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<p>Johnson & Wales in Providence is known for culinary. I would assume they have Nutrition also?</p>

<p>FYI, I work part-time for the Food Service Director for our public school system. She's been there 22 years, has no nutrition training, but uses a software program that calculates nutrition info to plan menus. When she retires I hope they hire someone with a Nutrition degree, like an RD. However, if you think you might want to have that type of career I would suggest also taking many business classes, accounting, management, etc. Probably only 1/4 of her job involves planning food choices, the rest is figuring out how to balance our income and expenses when we're feeding 2000 kids per day at $1.50 or $2.00 per meal!</p>

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<p>Thanks for that, it's very helpful. I'll definitely look into that school and learn more. :)</p>

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<p>JWEI - this may be of interest to you also - has bach and masters programs in nutrition/dietetics - just a thought for you</p>

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<p>Yea, I'm a Rutgers student and I know that we have a very large Food Science department here with lots of opportunities... the Food Science building on Cook Campus is huge! Other than that, I don't really know many specifics, I'm not a Cook College student or a Food Science major. If you have any questions about Rutgers you think I might be able to answer, ask away.</p>

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<p>My sister graduated with MS in Food and Nuitrition from Texas Tech. This is more the human nuitrition side. In addition they have a department havign more to do with food production. I have a friend who had a micro-biology degree then got a masters in Food Science and works for Frito-Lay as a food production manager. MY Sister is a Nuitirition consultant to hospital and Drs
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<p>Thanks a lot for all of this information everyone! :D</p>