Mestrado em Ciências da Nutrição Humana

The Institute of Human Nutrition, situated in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, offers highly qualified Postbac Premed students the opportunity to enrich and diversify their premedical education during a glide year prior to enrolling in medical school.

During the one-year program, training in human nutrition will expand your understanding of the role of nutrition in human health and disease prevention. Through your coursework, you will study all aspects of human nutrition, including basic nutrition science, clinical nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, and public health nutrition. You will have the opportunity to focus your degree in one of these areas through your spring elective courses and your master’s thesis project.

The School of General Studies of Columbia University is the finest liberal arts college in the United States created specifically for returning and nontraditional students seeking a rigorous, traditional, Ivy League undergraduate degree full or part-time.

GS is also home to innovative dual and joint degree programs open to all students, including those applying directly from high school, in partnership with List College of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Sciences Po, Trinity College Dublin, Tel Aviv University, and the City University of Hong Kong.