Anne Arundel Community College Nutrition Programs

Arts and Sciences Transfer Program • Arnold, MD • Campus • $135/Credit (In-County)

Anne Arundel Community College offers 1 Nutritional Sciences credential:

  • A.S., Arts and Sciences Transfer – Nutrition

Program Tracks Overview

ProgramEst. TuitionEst. DurationCredit Hours
A.S.$135/credit in-county;
$317/credit in-state		2 years
(60-credit norm)		60

This is a transfer-only associate degree, not an ACEND-accredited credential and not a path to the Nutrition and Dietetic Technician exam the way some other community college nutrition tracks are. It’s explicitly built to feed into named four-year accredited dietetics bachelor’s programs, and unlike AACC’s more competitive Health Sciences programs, it does not require a separate application or an information session.

Quick Facts

FeatureDetails
Program TypesA.S. (transfer-only; not ACEND-accredited, not an NDTR-eligible technician credential)
FormatCampus
Credit Hours60
ACEND AccreditationNo
RD/RDN EligibilityNo, on its own. This credential’s entire purpose is to transfer into an accredited bachelor’s dietetics program elsewhere
AdmissionsOpen; does not require a separate Health Sciences application or an information session, unlike AACC’s more competitive health programs
Named Transfer DestinationsUniversity of Maryland, College Park; UMES; Morgan State University; Howard University, per AACC’s own program page
Tuition$135/credit in-county; $317/credit in-state (other Maryland counties); $459/credit out-of-state, plus about $28/credit in mandatory fees and a $25/term registration fee
Institutional AccreditationMSCHE (Middle States Commission on Higher Education)

Associate of Science, Arts and Sciences Transfer – Nutrition

The estimated tuition for the A.S. at Anne Arundel is $135 per credit for in-county residents, $317 per credit for other Maryland residents, or $459 per credit out-of-state. The degree requires 60 total credits over the standard two-year timeline.

A.S. Curriculum

The 60 credits split into 32 general-education credits (English composition, arts and humanities, biology, mathematics, social science and history, and a technology requirement) and 28 concentration credits: Principles of Nutrition, General Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry I and II, Introductory Psychology, and electives.

AACC’s own catalog frames completion as enabling enrollment in accredited dietetics bachelor’s programs, followed by internship completion and registration-exam eligibility, rather than describing this associate degree as a credential in its own right.

You Should Know

This degree carries no ACEND accreditation and does not qualify graduates for the NDTR technician exam. Its value is entirely as preparation for transfer; verify which specific courses your destination university will accept before enrolling, since articulation terms change and the receiving program decides. No formal signed articulation-agreement document was located beyond AACC’s own descriptive program page.

A.S. Admissions

Admission is open, without the separate Health Sciences application or information session AACC requires for competitive programs like nursing or surgical technology.

Tuition

Anne Arundel bills a genuine per-credit rate that varies by residency: $135 per credit for Anne Arundel County residents, published directly on AACC’s tuition and fees page.

  • $135/credit for Anne Arundel County residents
  • $317/credit for residents of other Maryland counties
  • $459/credit for out-of-state or international students
  • About $28/credit in mandatory fees (athletic, educational services, student activity), plus a $25 per-term registration fee

Be aware that:

At 60 credits, full-time in-county tuition alone runs roughly $8,100 before fees, well below a four-year bachelor’s, but this associate degree by itself leads to no dietetics credential; the savings only materialize if transfer credit is actually accepted at the destination school.

Official tuition figures are published on AACC’s credit tuition and fees page.

Why Choose This Nutrition Program?

Best suited for students who want to complete general education and prerequisite science coursework at community-college rates before transferring into an accredited four-year dietetics program.

In-county Anne Arundel residents get the lowest per-credit rate of any Maryland nutrition-related credential researched for this guide.

Students undecided about dietetics specifically get a genuine advantage from the arts and sciences framing: the credits transfer broadly, so changing direction later doesn’t necessarily waste the coursework.

The honest trade-off is that this credential alone leads nowhere on the RD pathway. It is explicitly a feeder into someone else’s accredited program, and exactly which courses transfer is the receiving school’s decision, not a guarantee this page can make.

Accreditation

Anne Arundel Community College is institutionally accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), which governs credit transfer, graduate admission eligibility, and federal financial aid access.

This associate degree carries no ACEND accreditation of its own, and it isn’t designed to. That’s normal for a transfer-oriented associate degree rather than a deficiency, since its purpose is preparation for a four-year accredited program rather than a standalone credential.

Graduates of this A.S. are not RD- or NDTR-eligible on the credential alone. The pathway requires transferring into an ACEND-accredited bachelor’s dietetics program, such as those at the University of Maryland, College Park, UMES, or Morgan State University, then completing a Dietetic Internship and a graduate degree.

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