Bachelor Ernährungswissenschaften*

*Translated: Nutritional Sciences. Only available in German

Nutrition science deals with the composition and effects of nutrition and gets to the bottom of diet-related diseases.

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Language : German

Your success goes through the stomach. Study Nutritional Sciences.

You want to help people live a healthy life and to eat the right food? Then get the medical and food science basics with a Bachelor of Nutritional Sciences. People who study nutritional sciences can evaluate how fast food, ageing and unhealthy lifestyles can be directly linked to certain diseases after close analysis. Your study programme in Nutritional Sciences at the IU prepares you for a successful career in the area of nutrition.

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Your career opportunities. Future-oriented.

Your studies in Nutritional Sciences are opening a whole new range of opportunities for you and your career. Be ready to make an impact and to work in an industry as diverse as your learned skills.

Frau erstellt Qualitätsbericht für Betrieb

Quality & Hygiene Manager

Hygiene managers are responsible for the implementation of food safety measures in a company. Among other things, you carry out customer surveys, organise hygiene procedures, and create quality reports.

Healthcare & Nutrition Manager

Nutritionist

Choose how you want to study Nutritional Sciences at the IU

You can study Nutritional Sciences in a completely flexible way via distance learning. Here you can find out how your studies at the IU are organised and the advantages of the distance learning study model.

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Why you should study Nutritional Sciences

Studying for a degree offers various advantages that can help you in your professional career. You develop soft skills and abilities such as scientific research, which are important for your professional development and which you could not acquire in an apprenticeship. Certain positions and thus also salary levels can only be reached with an academic degree. Lifelong learning is also becoming increasingly important for our society and a bachelor’s, or master's degree simply ensures you better career and promotion opportunities and a successful future.

This is how your Nutritional Sciences studies at the IU look like

With the IU Nutritional Sciences degree programme, your thirst for knowledge is satisfied. You will learn to understand and to evaluate biochemical and nutritional relationships. In this way, you can develop an effective nutrition plan, for example. We will build you up as an expert in nutrition. This also includes aspects of Food Law and the Sociology of Nutrition. You will also take modules such as Biochemistry of Nutrition, Hygiene and Toxicology or Merchandise Science and Bromatology.

Outlook for the future: What you will do after your studies

If you work in companies, the subject of quality and project management, which is part of the study programme, will also be interesting for you. You want to start your own business afterwards? No problem. In the Bachelor of Nutritional Sciences, you will receive valuable information about how to start a business. With a successful degree in Nutritional Sciences, you also fulfil all the requirements for a certification course to become a nutritionist (e.g. nutritionist/DGE or nutritionist/VDOe). Your career prospects are definitely one thing: really healthy!

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