The Nutrition Science option is designed to fulfill all of the prerequisites for medical school and other health professional programs, such as optometry and physical therapy, which typically require at least one semester of physics and four semesters of chemistry.

The Applied Nutrition option is designed to help students become qualified to consult and/or develop programming or public health initiatives on healthy eating and other health-related activities necessary for improving quality of life and lowering health care costs, and/or to work with agricultural and food industries to help develop approaches associated with meeting these needs.