Overview
The Nutritional Sciences program from University of Kentucky emphasizes interdisciplinary research opportunities in laboratories run by nationally known faculty, with nutrition-related studies ranging from molecular mechanisms to complex metabolic interactions, disease-health interactions and behavioral processes.
Key Features
- One of the Division’s primary areas of research and training targets nutrition and chronic diseases, with a focus on obesity and associated disorders of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.
- Other specialty areas include nutrition and oxidative stress, nutrition and aging, clinical nutrition, animal nutrition and food science.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Integrated Nutritional Sciences
- Ethics in Clinical Sciences Research
- Ethics in Scientific Research
- Current Topics in Nutritional Sciences
- Seminar in Nutritional Sciences
- Practical Statistics
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
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Nutrition & Dietetics View 48 other PhDs in Nutrition & Dietetics in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Transcripts from all higher education institutions attended. The Graduate School requires an overall undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 and 3.00 on all graduate work.
- TOEFL or IELTS scores are required for all applications whose native language is not English.
- Curriculum vitae
- A brief essay, no longer than two single-spaced pages, describing long-term career goals and how the Ph.D. Program in Nutritional Sciences would advance these goals.
- Three letters of recommendation.
Tuition Fee
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