Nutrition

Course overview

Discover how to fight against unhealthy food choices and sedentary lifestyles using a scientific approach to nutrition and food science.

Why study with us

• Upon accreditation, our Nutrition graduates can become Associate Registered Nutritionists with the Association for Nutrition.

• Learn from registered nutritionists, exercise physiologists, and experienced industry professionals.

• Pathways to enrol in our MSc Dietetics, MSc Clinical Nutrition & Exercise Prescription, and MSc Food Safety Management programs.

What you'll do

• This course produces skilled graduates who will fill the gap between the medical profession and the food industry. You’ll develop an understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer and metabolic diseases, as well as learning how to create effective nutritional interventions.

• This course provides opportunities to undertake work experience, support real-world research as well as study abroad via student exchange programmes. We have links with universities in the United States, Canada and China

• Throughout your degree you will have access to a range of facilities which includes our accredited Physiology laboratory and specialist nutrition and food chemistry equipment to aid teaching and research.

Future Careers

This Nutrition course provides opportunities to undertake work experience, support real-world research as well as study abroad via student exchange programmes. We have links with universities in the United States, Canada and China.

Graduates of this course are highly employable, because they leave us equipped with all the tools to create nutritional intervention programmes that prevent and reduce disease. It’s an area that has climbed the agenda in recent years, making it a skillset that’s more valuable than ever.
So today you’ll find our graduates working in a range of roles, from public health nutritionists, and lab technicians to science teachers, dietetics professionals and food industry new product development technologists.

If you wish to study to become a Dietitian after graduating, our BSc Nutrition programme currently meets the academic learning requirements of our UCLan MSc (Pre-Reg) Dietetics programme, providing you achieve at least a 2:2 or above and meet other requirements (DBS, Occupational Health and score in Values-Based Recruitment - for further details see our MSc (pre-reg) Dietetics programme).