Acadia University offers BA/BS in Nutrition, a bachelor's degree in Nutrition & Dietetics programme in Wolfville, Canada. The programme is delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 25,173 per year (CAD 10,986 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Bachelor's Degree
Field:Nutrition & Dietetics
Delivery: On Campus
Local tuition: CAD 10,986 / year
International tuition: CAD 25,173 / year
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This program in Nutrition leads to a Bachelor of Science, with a Bachelor of Science with Honours available in the final year, and covers human nutrition, nutritional assessment, and food science alongside a required foundation in chemistry and biology. Students choose among three streams: Consumer Food, Kinesiology, or Dietetics, and may add a second major in Biology, Chemistry, or Psychology plus a minor. Students on the Dietetics stream can apply for a 48-week accredited practicum delivered in partnership with Nova Scotia Health, which supports eligibility toward dietitian registration. A co-op work-term option is also available. Teaching combines lecture-based coursework with hands-on laboratory learning throughout the degree. The program is delivered on campus at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. It suits students aiming for careers as registered dietitians or in related health fields such as medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, or dentistry, as well as those interested in food product development, nutrition education, or nutrition-related research, since the stream structure lets students steer the degree toward clinical practice, kinesiology-adjacent work, or a broader food-science focus depending on their goals.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: For applicants presenting the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Acadia University requires the IB Diploma including IB English with an overall score of 24 or better; a score of 30 or higher earns 30 hours of university credit. IB Mathematics (Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretations, SL or HL) and IB Chemistry must each be completed with a grade of 4 or better. Applicants who have completed IB courses but do not hold the diploma are considered on their coursework, with credit given for higher-level courses graded 5, 6 or 7.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Acadia does not publish year-specific application deadlines: its live admissions pages state only that domestic and international undergraduate applicants may apply any time after September 21st, with March 1st as the priority date for entrance-scholarship consideration (decisions by mid-April); no year is attached to either date. Admission is otherwise rolling, with no separate international closing date published. The Bachelor of Education programme has its own cycle, opening October 1st, but as of September 2026 the page still shows the stale 2025-2026 cycle and no current-cycle date has been published. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
About Acadia University
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