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title: "What can you do with a nutrition and dietetics degree?"
description: "13 careers nutrition and dietetics graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with a nutrition and dietetics degree?

**What the degree involves:** Biochemistry, food science, medical nutrition therapy, and supervised practice.

Nutrition splits early into two different degrees wearing one name. The dietetics track is a licensed clinical route with supervised practice and a registration exam at the end of it; the wider nutrition and food science track leads into community health, food manufacturing, quality and wellness work. Which one you are on decides most of this list.

13 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 13 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 13 of 13 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Dietitian | $76,400 | +5.5% | 6,200 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | Dietetic Technician | $37,640 | +2.5% | 4,000 | Associate's |
| 3 | Health Education Specialist | $64,070 | +4.5% | 7,900 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | Community Health Worker | $51,850 | +11.3% | 7,800 | High school |
| 5 | Food Scientist and Technologist | $88,720 | +6.5% | 1,200 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | Food Science Technician | $52,130 | +4.8% | 3,200 | Associate's |
| 7 | [Exercise Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/exercise-trainer-and-group-fitness-instructor) | $47,160 | +11.9% | 74,200 | High school |
| 8 | Fitness and Wellness Coordinator | $69,770 | +6.5% | 2,100 | High school |
| 9 | Exercise Physiologist | $59,460 | +9.5% | 1,700 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Food Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/food-service-manager) | $69,390 | +6.4% | 42,000 | High school |
| 11 | Quality Control Analyst | $62,280 | +3.5% | 10,600 | Associate's |
| 12 | [Regulatory Affairs Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/regulatory-affairs-specialist) | $80,730 | +3.0% | 33,300 | Bachelor's |
| 13 | [Medical and Health Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager) | $123,860 | +23.2% | 62,100 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology