Study Details: MSc/PG Dip Full-time: 12 months, Part-time: Up to 36 months
What is nutritional science?
Nutritional science underpins evidence-based dietary guidelines, informing strategies for health promotion and policies related to food and nutrition at the individual, community, and global levels.
This MSc programme provides a direct route to specialise in nutrition and is designed for BSc graduates with a biological sciences background (or biological sciences related subject). Accredited by the Association for Nutrition (AfN), successful graduates can join the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists (UKVRN) as a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr).
2:2 (or international equivalent) in a biological science subject, excluding nutrition or closely related degrees. Accepted degrees include but are not limited to biology, physiology, sports science, food science and psychology. Please contact us if you are unsure whether your degree meets these entry requirements.
Our graduates go on to work across nutrition and food companies such as Slimming World, Protein World and Danone. Some set up their own nutrition businesses. Others work as nutritionists in health services, for example working for the NHS in mental health nutrition support, or internationally, working for the Ghana Armed Forces.
Every year, some of our graduates decide to study research degrees at PhD level.
MSc
PG Dip
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