Master of Public Health | Nutrition

A Prestigious Degree for an Honorable Career

If you are passionate about health and desire to affect nutrition on the individual and community levels, then Liberty University’s Master of Public Health in Nutrition may be the degree for you! Much like an MBA prepares someone for a career in business, an MPH can prepare you for a career in community and public health nutrition.

You can learn the pertinent skills you need to succeed in a career in nutrition or a related field. When you graduate, you can become equipped with the knowledge and skills you need to positively impact your community by promoting healthy lifestyles.

Our master’s in public health nutrition program is a prestigious degree that can prepare you to work at all levels of government to affect the health of your community. This can be accomplished by finding solutions to food-borne illnesses, preventing disease, or fighting nutritional health disorders.

Once in the field, you may evaluate food availability to meet basic needs, the security of food sources, and the overall impact of nutrition on the health of a community. Food deserts are areas usually in inner cities that lack fresh, nutritious food that is readily available. The specialization seeks to eliminate food deserts and enhance food choices through public policy.

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At Liberty, you’ll find an affordable, high-quality education that equips students like you for the real world. Our commitment to excellence helped us rank among Niche.com’s Top 3 college campuses in America. Earning your degree from a nonprofit university with state-of-the-art resources like ours can help set you apart from your peers.

Why Choose Liberty’s Master of Public Health – Nutrition Degree?

Our MPH in Nutrition degree seeks to provide quality education while ensuring you are prepared for career opportunities through completing your practicum. Practicum experience espouses the knowledge you obtain through the MPH in Nutrition degree and real-life application. Through each step of your academic journey in this nutrition and health master’s program, our professors and staff are available to assist you.

Liberty University has one of the largest accredited MPH nutrition programs in the U.S. Our Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation means that you can become eligible for jobs in local government, federal government, and the military.

Our health promotion lab is another valuable resource to you in both your education and preparation for your future career. Being on campus allows you to collaborate with other students on class or community projects. You can also meet with tutors for help and utilize the library of textbooks to research useful information within your major.

In addition to these practical resources, you can be a part of Eta Sigma Gamma. ESG is an organization whose mission is the promotion of the discipline by elevating the standards, ideals, competence, and ethics of professionally prepared men and women in Health Education.

What Will You Learn in Our Master of Public Health – Nutrition Degree?

The foundational courses in this degree provide training in the various concepts of nutrition and provide a basis for the subsequent public health nutrition courses in the MPH program. You can learn the role of food in culture as to how food metabolizes within the body. This knowledge can help you learn how to alleviate diet-related problems across diverse populations, which can be the main part of a career in federal and private food assistance programs.

The need for food-borne illness prevention is a very important aspect of government programs for food safety. Understanding the causes and preventative measures you can take can be a key part of your education. Certain genetic populations metabolize and react to food differently than others. Therefore, you can study the factors that go into chronic disease prevention based on dietary control measures.

Physical fitness is another major component of public health. By educating individuals participating in sports on proper dietary concerns you can do your part to help them care for their bodies as “temples of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

Download and review our Degree Completion Plan, and check out our featured courses below for more information!

Featured Courses

HLTH 640 – Principles of Nutrition

HLTH 642 – Food-borne Illness Prevention

HLTH 643 – Public Health Nutrition

HLTH 645 – Performance Nutrition for the Physically Active

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Highlights of Our Master of Public Health – Nutrition Degree

Liberty’s public health nutrition master’s program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
Join our LU Public Health Student Association to receive career and professional growth opportunities.
Potential certification in various areas of public health, such as becoming a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES).
Explore over 20 teaching and research laboratories.
Our faculty are experienced in academia, industry, and government, holding doctoral degrees from leading institutions nationwide.
Meet with like-minded professionals who have the same goals of improving community health locally and globally.