The IHN offers several graduate educational programs:
The Master of Science in Nutrition. This 12-month program prepares students for one of several possible further directions in which advanced training may be pursued. Many M.S. students go on to train in a laboratory discipline pertinent to nutrition or in a public health field in which knowledge of nutrition figures significantly. The Institute expects to assist students actively in their explorations of avenues of further training.
M.S. Program for Health Professionals. This is a part-time program for health professionals who wish to add a thorough grounding in nutrition to their education.
Combined M.D.-Ph.D. Program. Independent applications are necessary to the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The Ph.D. in Nutrition. The emphasis of this program is upon educating students to become scientists equipped to add to the fund of knowledge through rigorous training in the fundamentals of the field of nutrition, a thorough preparation for bench or other research, and an independent investigation leading to a dissertation. Since nutrition is relevant to many areas of basic research as well as clinical medicine and public health, all major strengths of the Columbia University Medical Center, the possibilities for independent research are vast.
