Snow College Nutrition Degree Programs

Nutrition Program • Ephraim, UT • Campus • $160/Credit (Resident, Marginal Rate)

Snow College offers 1 nutrition credential:

  • A.S., Nutrition (a matching A.A. option adds one foreign-language course)

Program Tracks Overview

ProgramEst. TuitionEst. DurationCredit Hours
A.S. NutritionAbout $4,595/yr resident (2026-27, 30 credits)2 years full time60 per the catalog’s stated total (the published semester sequence sums to 64; unresolved)

Snow’s differentiator is cost: a genuinely low resident rate, well under any four-year Utah nutrition bachelor’s, built around general education and the science prerequisites a nutrition major needs. This is not an ACEND-accredited program and does not by itself lead toward RD eligibility; it is coursework meant to transfer.

Quick Facts

FeatureDetails
FormatCampus, Ephraim; not among Snow’s listed fully online associate degrees
Credit Hours60 per the catalog’s stated total; the four-semester course sequence on the same page sums to 64 credits, an unresolved internal inconsistency
ACEND AccreditationNo — not listed on Snow’s own accreditation page or on ACEND’s 2024 decisions page, consistent with an associate transfer degree rather than an accredited dietetics program
RD/RDN EligibilityNo, on its own. This is transfer coursework toward a four-year nutrition or dietetics degree elsewhere
Transfer PathwayNo formal, named nutrition-specific articulation agreement with a four-year Utah program was found with Utah State, University of Utah, Weber State, Southern Utah, or BYU; Snow’s own page names these schools only generally as accepting transfer credit, and Weber State’s own transfer-agreement list names four Snow pathways, none in nutrition. Treat coursework as generally transferable rather than covered by a specific 2+2 agreement
AdmissionsOpen, rolling admission with a high school diploma or GED; no standardized test required; no nutrition-specific admissions requirements beyond general college admission
Tuition$160/credit resident marginal rate beyond the 12-18 credit block (2026-27); non-resident $550/credit
Institutional AccreditationNWCCU (Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities)

Associate of Science, Nutrition

The estimated tuition for the A.S. is about $4,595 a year for a Utah resident taking 30 credits within the standard block rate (2026-27, tuition plus fees). The catalog states 60 total credits over two years of full-time study.

Curriculum

The four-semester plan mixes general education with the science base a nutrition major needs: precalculus and statistics, general and organic chemistry with labs, human biology, human physiology and anatomy with labs, psychology, sociology, and humanities and fine-arts electives. Snow also offers an A.A. version with the same requirements plus a foreign-language course.

You Should Know

Snow’s own catalog page states the degree is 60 credits, but its published semester-by-semester course sequence on the same page sums to 64 credits. Neither figure is corrected on the other, so confirm the current requirement with an advisor before planning a transfer timeline. No formal, dated nutrition-specific articulation agreement with a four-year Utah nutrition program was found; ask the receiving school which Snow courses transfer as major credit rather than assuming a defined 2+2 pathway.

Admissions

Open, rolling admission with a high school diploma or GED equivalent; no standardized test scores required. Early admission is available for qualifying high school juniors and, rarely, sophomores.

Tuition

Snow College bills a block rate for 12 to 18 credits, then a per-credit rate beyond it (2026-27, tuition plus the capped student fee).

  • Resident block (12-18 credits): $2,297.25/semester; beyond the block, $160/credit
  • Non-resident block: $7,601.25/semester; beyond the block, $550/credit
  • Annual estimate for 30 credits: about $4,595 resident, about $15,203 non-resident
  • Western Undergraduate Exchange rate (1.5x resident) also published: $3,345.25/semester block, $240/credit beyond it
  • 2025-26 rates were slightly lower: $2,219/semester resident block, about $4,438/yr for 30 credits

Be aware that:

A commonly cited $5,050 community college average for Utah does not match Snow’s own rates in either direction by much, but treat it as a rough state average rather than Snow’s specific figure. The college’s capped student fee actually decreased slightly year over year ($204 to $201.25) even as per-credit tuition rose; this is confirmed on Snow’s own tuition schedules, not an error in this profile.

Official figures are on Snow’s tuition schedule page.

Why Choose This Nutrition Program?

Best suited for Utah students who want to start a nutrition-related bachelor’s at the lowest available in-state cost and finish the first two years’ science and general-education requirements before transferring.

Students watching cost pay about $4,595 a year as a resident, a fraction of any four-year Utah nutrition bachelor’s, for coursework built to transfer.

Students who are not yet sure which Utah nutrition program they’ll finish at benefit from open, rolling admission and no program-specific prerequisites.

The honest trade-off is that this associate degree carries no ACEND status and no confirmed, named articulation agreement with any specific four-year nutrition program in the state, so plan transfer credit with an advisor at both schools rather than assuming automatic acceptance.

Accreditation

Snow College is institutionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), which governs credit transfer, graduate admission eligibility, and federal financial aid access across the college.

The A.S. in Nutrition carries no ACEND accreditation; it does not appear on Snow’s own accreditation page or on ACEND’s decisions pages. As transfer coursework, it does not by itself lead to RDN eligibility. Students who want the RD credential complete a bachelor’s, and in most cases a graduate degree and supervised practice, at an ACEND-accredited program elsewhere.

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