<p>Is it really important for your undergraduate to offer your major? If I want to do nutritional sciences, does my undergrad need to offer that, or can I study it in graduate school? Thanks!</p>
<p>How can you be sure you’ll get into a grad school?</p>
<p>You just need to have something in the general area. Biology and chemistry would probably be two majors that a nutritional science program would consider acceptable</p>
<p>Yeah, you need to have faculty in the area of your interest. If you try to apply for grad school in nutritional sciences without even having taken a course in the field much less significant research experience in the area, you won’t be very successful. That isn’t to say that you need a specifically “nutritional sciences” department, surely many physiology, cell biology, molecular biology and chemistry departments would have people studying questions in nutritional sciences. I would suggest that for any school you are serious about, you examine their course offerings to see what classes are taught in nutritional sciences (this must be more specific than just biochem). Also, look at the faculty that make up the department. Read their research interests and see if any of those projects would be fun for you to work on.</p>