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    MSc/PGDip Full-time: 12 months Part-time: 24 months

Masters Degree Description

Food production management is an exciting and challenging course, combining the food sciences with management skills. It equips science and engineering graduates for a career in food production or technical management in the food industry. You will acquire the knowledge associated with food processing, quality assurance and new product development. It also develops essential management techniques including supply chain planning and quality management.

Factory visits, case studies and guest speakers from industry will give you plenty of industry exposure throughout the year. Tackle the real-life industry problems in our problem-based learning module. The briefs from industry will be used for a new product development project. You will do the practical in our Food Processing Facility which hosts a wide range of commercial scale food production and testing equipment.

Entry Requirements

2:2 level or above (or its international equivalent) in a natural or applied science discipline or in an engineering discipline such as chemical, agricultural or food engineering.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Initial roles our students have gone on to do include:

  • Materials technologist
  • Specifications or systems technologist
  • New product development
  • Food processing technologist
  • Quality control or analysis technologist
  • Sensory technologist
  • Laboratory technologist
  • Retail technologist

Module Details

Core modules

  • Postgraduate Research Project60 credits
  • Factory Design and Operations for Food Production20 credits
  • Core Skills and Technologies of Food Manufacture30 credits
  • Food Manufacturing Case Studies10 credits
  • Quality Management and Quality Techniques for Industry20 credits
  • Supply Chain Planning and Management20 credits

Optional modules

  • Food Flavour10 credits
  • E-Business10 credits
  • Managing Contemporary Operations: Fundamentals and Challenges10 credits
  • Consumer Science10 credits
  • Project Management10 credits

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