Graduate Diploma in Food and Nutrition Science

Step up to your future in food innovation

Technological advances continue to create new possibilities for how we process, transport, consume and sustain our most vital energy source: food. Within this flourishing scientific field, opportunities abound for competent workers and tech-minded creatives.

Delivered over one year full-time, our Graduate Diploma in Food and Nutrition Science offers specialist skill-building to set you up for success in this evolving space. You will:

• apply sensory and flavour science to new product development
• expand your knowledge of microbiology
• formulate and package foods with specific functional and nutritional properties
• assess emerging processing and preservation techniques
• investigate the crucial aspects of a secure food supply
• evaluate legislative and regulatory policy
• build peer relationships in your own learning space, within the University's dedicated Food Innovation Laboratory.

By advancing your knowledge and technical skills, you could contribute to an expanding industry and take advantage of exciting growth and leadership opportunities. You might want to improve health outcomes as a nutritional therapist. You could take on a senior role in a research laboratory. Perhaps you're looking to qualify your aspirations as a multi-sensory chef!

• Brand new food science labs and kitchen facilities
• Ranked in top 200 globally for Food Science and Technology*
• Producing scientific research 'well above world standard'

*Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject, 2022