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.
Distance Learning
Bachelor Ernährungswissenschaften (B.Sc.)*
*Translated: Nutritional Sciences. Language: German.
Nutrition science deals with the composition and effects of nutrition and gets to the bottom of diet-related diseases.
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.
Do you want to know more?
In our free and non-binding information material you will find out everything about:
Content of your studies
Admission and application
Prices in detail
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.
Healthcare managers combine business know-how, social skills, and legal expertise. They are familiar with national and international health systems and work on solution strategies for issues concerning medicine and economics.
As a nutritionist, you advise clients in your own practice, hospitals or wellness facilities. You create nutrition plans, analyse eating behaviour and support your clients with their shopping and cooking. A nutritionist is both a motivator and an expert contact point.
Study formats
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.
Ernährungswissenschaften (B.Sc.)
Distance Learning
For maximum freedom - study 100% flexible
You study completely on your own terms. Get the perfect blend of innovative study tools, interactive study formats via video chat (live or on demand) and personal support.
Request free study brochure
What you get for free
Information on study content & electives
Information on career prospects
Information on financing options
FAQ
The most important questions about studying Nutritional Sciences
As a university, the IU deliberately dispenses with an NC. Here you simply study what you feel most like doing and what ideally matches your talents. No matter what your grade point average is. Studying without NC is a matter of course for us, so that you always get the place you want.
You can study the Nutritional Sciences bachelor’s degree through the distance learning programme completely on your own terms and with 100% flexibility. Thanks to the virtual learning format with interactive online courses, your IU studies can be completed entirely independent of time and place.
Yes, we also make that possible at the IU. In addition to the entrance qualification in form of an Abitur or Fachabitur, prospective students without an Abitur also have the opportunity to enter our bachelor’s programme. You can study Nutritional Sciences without an Abitur if you have completed an advanced training course (e.g. as an IHK business administrator) have a master craftsman's certificate or have at least two years of vocational training and at least three years of professional experience building on this.
Nutritional Sciences takes 36, 48 or 72 months, depending on the time model you choose. If you need more time and semesters for your studies, this is also absolutely no problem.
An academic degree gives you access to top positions in business and research, but you also acquire more in-depth knowledge about nutrition and food. Your skills as a nutritionist are always needed, as human nutrition and everything that comes with it are more important than ever now and in the future. A degree equips you with all the know-how you need to be successful as a researcher, in nutritional medicine or in the industrial production sector. Your wide-ranging knowledge in the area of nutrition will open up a large professional field of activity for you, which also offers the prospect of an even higher salary with an academic degree. Therefore, studying Nutrition Sciences is profitable for you on several levels.
Contact
Do you still have questions?
Our free student advisory service has all the answers for you! We take the time to advise you individually and without obligation.
Details
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!
Awards, accreditations and certifications
