Pass Rates and Acceptance Rates - Program Disclosure

When you graduate from our program, you must go on and successfully complete an internship.

After your internship, you're eligible to sit for the registration exam for dietitians, commonly called the RD exam.

As required by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND), here is the internship acceptance rate and RD exam pass rate information for our program.

Approved programs

There are 621 active U.S.-based accredited/approved dietetics programs as of July 2025, according to ACEND. They are as follows:

Approved dietetics programs
Program type	Number of programs
Didactic Programs in Dietetics (DPD)	209
Coordinated Programs in Dietetics	54
Dietetic Internship (DI)	246
Dietetic Technician Programs (DTR)	19
Graduate Programs in Dietetics	93
Total	621

Note: Completion of your degree does not guarantee your acceptance into an internship program.

The following table shows the internship acceptance rates from the Missouri State University program for the past five years.

Acceptance rates
Academic year	Graduates and VS recipients	Percentage applied to internship	Accepted to internship in first application year	Applied, not accepted	Reapplied and accepted later	Total percentage accepted to internship
2020-21	13	100%	13	0	n/a	100%
2021-22	23	86%	20	0	n/a	100%
2022-23	14	100%	14	0	n/a	100%
2023-24	30	83%	25	0	n/a	100%
2024-25	19	68%	12	1	n/a	92%
Five-year totals (2020-21 to 2024-25)	99	87.4%	84	1	0	98.4%

Exam pass rates
Graduation year	First-time test takers	Passed on first attempt	Passed within one year	First-time pass rate	One-year pass rate
2020	23	18	22	78%	95%
2021	14	13	n/a	92%	n/a
2022	n/a	n/a	14	n/a	100%
2023	n/a	n/a	12	n/a	92.31%
2024	n/a	n/a	16	n/a	94.12%