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  • Bachelor of Food Science and Human Nutrition / Bachelor of Business

Overview

Match business skills with your passion for food and nutrition, and maximise your employability once you graduate.

With society facing new challenges in food production, and the demand for sustainable and healthy choices growing, there’s never been a better time to enter the food and nutrition industry.

This combined degree allows you to pair in-depth scientific knowledge with business expertise across marketing, tourism, industrial relations and more.

Study Option

  • Tuition Fees
  • Duration206 Weeks
  • Intake22 July 2024
  • Study Typecampus
  • Campuses The University of Newcastle (Central Coast)
    New South Wales ( Inc. Sydney )
    10 Chittaway Rd, Ourimbah, 2258

Course Structure

You will gain extensive practical experience from our well-equipped laboratories and industry partners. Our bachelor program covers a wide range of topics, which prepare you for leading roles as a food and nutrition professional and give you a competitive edge in the job market.

Core courses include:

  • biology and biochemistry
  • food marketing and consumer behaviour
  • food safety and microbiology
  • food technologies
  • nutrition in health and disease
  • accounting
  • management
  • finance

Career Outcomes

The food industry is rapidly growing as society becomes savvier and the thirst for transparency and nutritional information grows.

Professional outcomes:

  • food scientist, technologist or chemist
  • food product development officer
  • food biotechnologist
  • flavourist
  • nutrition educator or researcher
  • community health promotions officer

Academic

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC). Admission to o

Entry Requirement

They must also satisfy any one of the following English proficiency requirements whose first language is not English: TOEFL score of 525 with a TWE (Test of Written English) minimum of 4.0 in the paper-based test; TOEFL internet based score of 80 and no subtest less than 20; IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 no subtest less than 6.0; PTE score of 57 with no subtest score less than 50; CAE score of 52 - 57. Students from different countries should have qualifications equivalent to Australia.

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