Students apply for admission to the Nutrition and Food Sciences AMP program during the regular application cycle.  Admission is restricted to students that are either entering the spring term of their junior year and no later than the start of the fall semester of their senior year.

Admission to the accelerated program requires the following:

1. A declared major in NFS.
2. NFS faculty member willing to serve as mentor
3. A minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA is required; a GPA of 3.3 or higher is preferred.
4. Completion of a college-level statistics course.
5. Completion of the Graduate College application form and three letters of recommendation.  GRE not required.
6. A letter of support from a faculty member who is willing to serve as primary mentor during enrollment in the NFS AMP MS program. This may serve as the 3rd letter of recommendation.
7. Completion of the UVM Accelerated Master's Degree Permission Form (attached to the online application)
8. Finalists will be interviewed.  

Decisions on accepteance will be decided by an NFS department review committee

Students in accelerated MS program have the option of taking courses for graduate credit before all requirements for the BS/BA degree have been satisfied.  However, these courses can only be double-counted if taken the semester following admittance to the ANFSMS (Students must be admitted through the Graduate College before taking any courses that will be applied toward the master’s degree requirements). A maximum of 6 credit hours may be counted for both the BS and MS degrees and courses are limited to those approved for graduate credit.  You will be asked to list two of these courses on the UVM Accelerated Master’s Degree Permission Form.

Courses approved for graduate credit are found here: Graduate Approved Courses

The courses listed as approved for graduate credit are subject to change.  Graduate Research Credits cannnot be counted toward the 6 credits.

**Students taking a 200 level course approved for graduate credit as part of the ANFSMS program must notify the faculty member of the course that they are taking the course at the graduate level before the course begins. That notification must be copied to gradcoll@uvm.edu.

Program Requirements:

• Students must complete 30 credits
• Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor. 
• Nine credits taken during the senior year can be transferred in to the MS degree. However, only 6 of these credits can be counted for the NFS/DNFS undergraduate degree.
• This is a non-thesis track MS degree

Course requirements:

• Stat 211:  Statistical Methods 1 (3 cr)
• NFS 6350:  NFS Seminar  (1 cr)
• NFS 6362:  Intro to Research Methods (3 cr)
• NFS 6392: Master's Project Research (3-6 credits)
• Remaining elective courses should be chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor and must be approved for graduate credit. Students are encouraged to choose courses that will enhance your Master's Project Research.

Comprehensive Examination:

• AMP candidates will present an oral presentation on their final project by the end of the semester for which the final credits have been assigned.
• The oral presentation will be attended by the faculty mentor and at least two additional members of the NFS gradaute program.  These three faculty form the student's Faculty Project Review Committee.
• One Graduate College faculty member from another department can substitute for one NFS faculty member.
• The student must create a flyer announcing the oral presentation two weeks before the presentation date and send it to their committee and to the NFS administrator for distribution.
  • The following information should be included: project title, student's name and degree program, presentation date, time and location, and project description.
• The oral presentation and the Faculty project Review Committee meeting that follows will constitute the student's M.S. Comprehensive Examination.

This Academic Plan is for UVM DNFS major students that plan on applying for the ANFSMS program.

First Year

Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

*May be counted as the part of the six credits that count for both the NFS (Dietetics Concentration) BS and ANFSMS degree.

**To be transferred to the ANFSMS degree, does not count for the NFS(Dietetics Concentration) BS degree.

Fifth Year: Graduate Program ANFSMS

Total of 21 credits to complete the NFS MS Degree

* Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor.

Prerequisite sequence: 
CHEM 100→CHEM 1580→NFS 2183→NFS 3243; NFS 3243→NFS 3260 , NFS 3260, BIOC 3063 . 

ENG 001 or ENG 0XX first year is recommended. 

Any two Humanities/Fine Arts Courses can be taken (suggest choosing University Approved Diversity course for at least one Humanities option to increase the number of electives the student has available).

The Diversity courses Anthropology 1100 will fulfill the Social Science requirement.

Diversity Requirement: 
All undergraduates must successfully complete one three-credit course from Category 1 (Race and Racism in the U.S.) and a second three-credit course from either Category 1 or Category 2 (Human and Societal Diversity). These requirements will apply as well to undergraduate transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees from May 2012 onward.

For approved courses refer to Web Page: http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/courses/diversitycourses/

Diversity courses in Art, Classics, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Theater will also fulfill the humanities requirement. 

Potential 200 and 300 level graduate courses outside NFS for the fourth or fifth year:

Courses should be selected according to the student’s interest and career goals:

Biochem: 212, 305, 306
CTS: 271, 305, 306
CDAE: 207, 208, 218, 237
EDDS: 208, 313, 336
FS: 321, 335, 340, 345, 355
MMG: 220
NH: 301, 303
PSYS: 211
PH: 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, 318

First Year

Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

Total 121 credits: 120 count for the NFS BS degree, 9 count for the NFS MS degree

*Any of these courses approved for graduate credit may be counted as the part of the six credits that count for both the NFS BS and the ANFSMS degree.

**To be transferred to the NFS MS degree, does not count for the NFS degree

Fifth Year: Graduate Program ANFSMS

Total of 21 credits required to complete the ANFSMS degree

*Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor.

Prerequisite sequence:
CHEM 23→CHEM 42→PBIO 185→NFS 3243; NFS 3243→NFS 3260, 3263.

ENG 001 or ENG 0XX first year is recommended.

Any two Humanities/Fine Arts Courses can be taken (suggest choosing University Approved Diversity course for at least one Humanities option to increase the number of electives the student has available).

The Diversity course Anthropology 021 will fulfill the Social Science requirement.

Diversity Requirement:
All undergraduates must successfully complete one three-credit course from Category 1 (Race and Racism in the U.S.) and a second three-credit course from either Category 1 or Category 2 (Human and Societal Diversity). These requirements will apply as well to undergraduate transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees from May 2012 onward.

For approved courses refer to Web Page: http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/courses/diversitycourses/

Diversity courses in Art, Classics, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Theater will also fulfill the humanities requirement.

Potential 200 and 300 level graduate courses outside NFS for the fourth or fifth year:

Courses should be selected according to the student’s interest and career goals:

Biochem: 212, 305, 306
CTS: 271, 305, 306
CDAE: 207, 208, 218, 237
EDDS: 208, 313, 336
FS: 321, 335, 340, 345, 355
MMG: 220
NH: 301, 303
PSYS: 211
PH: 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, 318

First Year
 

Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

Total 121 credits: 120 count for the NFS BS degree, 9 count for the NFS MS degree

*Any of these courses approved for graduate credit may be counted as the part of the six credits that count for both the NFS BS and the ANFSMS degree.

**To be transferred to the NFS MS degree, does not count for the NFS degree

Fifth Year: Graduate Program NFS MS

Total of 21 credits required to complete the ANFSMS degree

*Students must complete a 3-6 credit final project under the direction of their graduate faculty mentor.

Prerequisite sequence:
CHEM 23→CHEM 42→NFS 2183→NFS 3243; NFS 3243→NFS 3260, 3263.

ENG 001 or ENG 0XX first year is recommended.

Any two Humanities/Fine Arts Courses can be taken (suggest choosing University Approved Diversity course for at least one Humanities option to increase the number of electives the student has available).

The Diversity course Anthropology 021 will fulfill the Social Science requirement.

Diversity Requirement:
All undergraduates must successfully complete one three-credit course from Category 1 (Race and Racism in the U.S.) and a second three-credit course from either Category 1 or Category 2 (Human and Societal Diversity). These requirements will apply as well to undergraduate transfer students receiving bachelor's degrees from May 2012 onward.

For approved courses refer to Web Page: http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/courses/diversitycourses/

Diversity courses in Art, Classics, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Theater will also fulfill the humanities requirement.

Potential 200 and 300 level graduate courses outside NFS for the fourth or fifth year:

Courses should be selected according to the student’s interest and career goals:

Biochem: 212, 305, 306
CTS: 271, 305, 306
CDAE: 207, 208, 218, 237
EDDS: 208, 313, 336
FS: 321, 335, 340, 345, 355
MMG: 220
NH: 301, 303
PSYS: 211
PH: 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, 318

• Choose courses that will enhance your research project
• Think about what you want to accomplish with your research project
• Keep a running dialog with your advisor:
  • set up meetings to discuss progress and bench marks
  • discuss course selections
• Seek assistance with writing your research project with the Graduate Writing Center

• Students in the ANFSMS are expected to continue the high degree of academic performance that was evident when they were admitted to the program. 
• A minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 is required for continuation in the ANFSMS. 
• Undergraduate students whose cumulative GPA at any time falls below this minimum for more than one semester will be removed from the ANFSMS. 
• Once students in the ANFSMS receive the BS and are admitted to the regular MS degree program, academic probation matters will be dealt with in the same manner as for other MS students.