Arts and Sciences Transfer Pathways • Ellisville, MS • Campus • $216/Credit (Part-Time)
Jones County Junior College offers 1 Nutritional Sciences credential:
- A.A., Food & Nutrition and Dietetics, Transfer Pathway
Program Tracks Overview
| Program | Est. Tuition | Est. Duration | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.A. | $2,542/term flat rate, full time | 2 years (67-credit norm) | 67 |
Jones County’s transfer pathway is not an ACEND-accredited credential itself; it is explicitly built to feed the prerequisite science coursework, chemistry, anatomy and physiology, and microbiology, that a dietetics bachelor’s requires, using Mississippi’s statewide articulation tool. The current catalog does not name a specific four-year partner the way an older archived version once did for Mississippi State specifically, so confirm the exact transfer equivalency with your intended destination school directly.
Quick Facts
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Format | Campus |
| Credit Hours | 67 |
| ACEND Accreditation | No |
| RD/RDN Eligibility | No, on its own. This credential’s entire purpose is to transfer into an accredited bachelor’s dietetics program elsewhere |
| Admissions | Open admission; official ACT scores required; no minimum score or GPA gate specified for this program |
| Named Transfer Mechanism | Mississippi Articulation Transfer Tool (MATT), via the statewide Mississippi Community College Board and Institutions of Higher Learning articulation agreement; no specific four-year partner named on the current catalog page |
| Tuition | $2,542/term flat rate, full time; $216/credit part time; nonresident surcharge $205/credit, capped at $1,000 |
| Institutional Accreditation | SACSCOC (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges) |
Associate of Arts, Food & Nutrition and Dietetics, Transfer Pathway
The estimated tuition for the A.A. at Jones County is $2,542 per term, a flat full-time rate, or $216 per credit part time. The pathway requires 67 credits over the standard two-year timeline.
A.A. Curriculum
The science core includes General Chemistry I, Anatomy and Physiology I and II, Microbiology, and an introductory Nutrition course, alongside general-education requirements in English, history, math, psychology, sociology, speech, accounting, economics, statistics, and a fine-arts elective. Jones County’s own catalog frames the pathway as designed for students who plan to transfer credit to a university and complete a degree there, not as a terminal credential.
You Should Know
This pathway carries no ACEND accreditation and does not qualify graduates for the NDTR technician exam, which Mississippi does not license in any case. An older, archived version of Jones County’s catalog specifically named extra science courses required for transfer to Mississippi State; that specific guidance is absent from the current catalog. Confirm which courses your destination university will accept before enrolling, since articulation terms change and the receiving program decides.
A.A. Admissions
Admission is open; applicants submit official ACT scores, with no minimum score or GPA requirement specified for this program.
Tuition
Jones County bills part-time students a genuine per-credit rate, $216 per credit, and full-time students a flat $2,542 per term instead.
- $2,542/term flat rate, full time (all Academic/University Parallel programs, including this one)
- $216/credit, part time
- Nonresident surcharge: $205/credit, capped at $1,000 total
Be aware that:
At roughly $5,084 a year full time before the nonresident surcharge, this pathway is inexpensive relative to a four-year bachelor’s, but it leads to no dietetics credential on its own; the savings only materialize if transfer credit is actually accepted at the destination school.
Official tuition figures are published on Jones County’s tuition 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 Mississippi.
Mississippi residents get the lowest-cost entry point into the state’s dietetics pipeline, well below any of the state’s four-year options.
Students undecided about dietetics specifically get a genuinely transferable, general-education-heavy curriculum, so changing direction later doesn’t necessarily waste the coursework.
The honest trade-off is that this credential alone leads nowhere on the RD or NDTR pathway, and exactly which courses transfer, and whether any additional prerequisites apply for a specific destination school, is a decision the receiving university makes, not a guarantee this page can offer.
Accreditation
Jones County Junior College is institutionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 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.A. are not RD- or NDTR-eligible on the credential alone; Mississippi does not license NDTR technicians in any case. The pathway requires transferring into an ACEND-accredited bachelor’s dietetics program, such as those at the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Mississippi, or Mississippi State University, then completing supervised practice and a graduate degree.
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