Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services at University of Central Arkansas

If you plan to study dietetics & clinical nutrition services, take a look at what University of Central Arkansas has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCA is located in Conway, Arkansas and has a total student population of 10,335.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services section at the bottom of this page.

UCA Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition

UCA Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Rankings

The nutrition major at UCA is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Nutrition Student Demographics at UCA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the nutrition majors at University of Central Arkansas.

UCA Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of nutrition bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women. The typical nutrition bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at UCA since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in nutrition at UCA are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its nutrition bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Central Arkansas with a bachelor's in nutrition.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Concentrations Within Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services

If you plan to be a nutrition major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Central Arkansas. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Dietetics/Dietitian	22

Related Majors

• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science
• Allied Health Professions
• Other Health Professions
• Communication Sciences
• Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions

Careers That Nutrition Grads May Go Into

A degree in nutrition can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AR, the home state for University of Central Arkansas.

Occupation	Jobs in AR	Average Salary in AR
Dietitians and Nutritionists	500	$58,390
Dietetic Technicians	160	$26,920

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Steve Wright Jr. (flickr user: Wright Way Photography) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.