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Undergraduate Studies

After Cornell, What Do
D.N.S. Majors Do?

 

Human Biology, Health & Society (HBHS)
Nutritional Sciences - CHE (NS-CHE)
Nutritional Sciences - CALS (NS-CALS)

 

Immediately after graduation . . . about one third of HBHS, NS -CALS, or NS-CHE graduates intend to go to medical school within one or two years and about one third plan to complete dietetic internships.  About 8% expect to pursue advanced study in exercise science or physical therapy.  About 20% of seniors intend to go to graduate programs in fields other than medicine or exercise science, and this percentage includes students earning graduate degrees while they complete their dietetic internship.  Others enter the job market in areas as diverse as banking and the Peace Corps. (Percentages based on intentions of students as reported at graduation, 1992-06.)

Medicine and Dentistry (examples of placement, 2004-07) (more than one graduate at some sites):

  • Upstate Medical School
  • SUNY Stony Brook Medical School
  • New York University of Medicine
  • University of Buffalo Medical School
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Washington Medical School
  • University of Cape Town Medical School
  • University of Wisconsin Medical School
  • Weill Medical College
  • Dartmouth Medical School
  • New Jersey Medical School
  • University of Virginia Medical School
  • University of Texas Health Science Center
  • Drexel University College of Medicine
  • St George’s University
  • Loyola University
  • Mount Sinai University
  • The George Washington University of Medicine and Health Science
  • Hong Kong
  • Columbia University
  • Emory University School of Medicine: Atlanta, GA
  • University of Rochester
  • Tufts University
  • SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
  • National Institute of Health Intramural Research
  • University of Southern California
  • University of The Pacific, School of Dentistry
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
  • SUNY Stony Brook
  • University of California at San Francisco School of Dentistry


Dietetics (examples of dietetic internship and AP4 program placements, 2004-07)(more than one graduate at some sites):

  • Clemson University
  • North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Care System
  • Brigham and Woman’s Hospital
  • VA Bronx Medical Center
  • Yavapai County Health Department
  • Aramark Dietetic Internship
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • University of Buffalo
  • SUNY Stony Brook
  • New York Presbyterian Hospital
  • University of Maryland Medical Center
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Brook Army Military Hospital
  • Pennsylvania State
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
  • Saint Francis Medical Center; Peoria, IL
  • Meredith College; Raleigh, NC
  • University of California; San Francisco
  • Syracuse University

Physical Therapy and Exercise Science, etc (examples of graduate school placements, 1994-2007) (more than one graduate at some sites):

  • Auburn University, Auburn, GA (exercise science)
  • Boston University, Boston, MA (physical therapy)
  • Columbia University, New York, NY (exercise physiology)
  • SUNY Stony Brook, NY (physical therapy)
  • Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (physical therapy)
  • University of California at San Francisco, CA (physical therapy)
  • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN (athletic training)
  • University of Texas, Austin, TX (exercise physiology)
  • Washington University, St. Louis MO (physical therapy)
Other Graduate and Professional Programs (examples of placements, 1994-2007) (more than one graduate at some sites):

  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • Cornell University
  • SUNY Cortland
  • St. George’s University
  • University of Puerto Rico
  • New York University, Steinhardt School of Education
  • Oxford University
  • University of Utah
  • Columbia University Teachers College
  • Sloan Program in Health Administration; Cornell University
  • John Hopkins’s Cell and Molecular Medicine PhD Program
  • Rutgers University
  • University of South California
  • Berkley
  • University of Minnesota, law school
  • New York University: optometry
  • University of Pennsylvania: nursing

Health Care Management

  • Yale School of Epidemiology
  • SUNY Stony Brook
  • National Institute of Health
  • Binghamton University

Research

  • Cornell Medical School
  • New York University School of Medicine
  • Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital
  • National Institutes of Health
  • North Shore University Hospital
  • University of Maryland Medical center
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; Washington DC
  • Harvard Medical School Children’s Hospital
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Rockefeller University

Employment (examples of placement immediately after graduation, 1994-2006):

Lab Technician, sports medicine soft tissue research, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Stockbroker, D.M.G. Securities, Clearwater, FL
Research Assistant, obesity research, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
Home Health Aide, Classen Home Health Associates, Ithaca, NY
Clinical Research Associate, dermatology company, Parsippany, NJ
Assistant Football Coach, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Management Development Trainee, Nestle, USA
Management Trainee, Smith Barney, New York, NY
Management Trainee, Price Waterhouse, San Francisco, NY
Research Assistant, surgical intensive care unit, Cornell Medical Center/New York Hospital, New York, NY
Administrator, migrant clinic, Rochester, NY
Research Assistant, neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Equity Research Assistant, Suffolk Capital Management Inc., New York, NY
Assistant Embryologist with Reproductive Science Associates, Long Island, NY
Peace Corps
Americorps in Boston and Brooklyn
Algomod Technologies, IT Recruiter
Medical Research at Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Center in Boston
Women and Infant Care (WIC), Washington, DC
National Institute of Child Health and Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD, (research fellow and immunology)
Research Assistant, AIDS Cellular Immunology Research on South African AIDS strain, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Health Promotion Assistant, Gannett Clinic, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Project Manager, E-commerce Group, Capital One, Richmond, VA
Research Project Coordinator for Neonatal Sepsis Study at Valley Children's Hospital, Madera, CA
Public Education and Advocacy, Tennessee Donor Services
Emergency Medical Technician, Philadelphia, PA
Christian Missionary
Health Clinic in rural Ecuador
Social, Environmental and Political Advocacy, MASSPIRG (non-profit org)
Research Assistant in Clinical Trials Unit, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Teach for America (Los Angeles and Rio Grande Valley)
Research Assistant, biochemical immune mechanisms, Einstein Medical School
Professional Hockey
Tuberculosis Research, Cornell Medical Center
Division of Rheumatology, Cornell Medical School for Special Surgery
High School Math Teacher
Research Assistant at National Institute of Health
Teach for America – New York City – Secondary School Science Teacher


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