The BSc Nutritional Sciences combines scientific disciplines to provide a thorough understanding of the role of diet and nutrition in diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, and others. The course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between diet and health. You will learn how to apply this knowledge to the provision of nutritional advice to the public, as well as providing safe, wholesome and nutritious food to the consumer. Nutritional science is the study of food as it impacts our health and is concerned with the provision of food and nutrients to the body to facilitate optimum physical and mental development and maintenance of health throughout life. The course is accredited by the UK Association for Nutrition and graduates are automatically entitled to register with the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists as an Associate Nutritionist.

Nutritional Sciences graduates are equipped to work in a wide range of industries and other areas of responsibility including: Food Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Governmental and non-governmental agencies Pastgraduates have gone on to pursue successful careers in research and development, production, management, quality assurance and health promotion, among others. In addition, graduates have many opportunities to advance to MSc and PhD courses in Nutrition and other life sciences and to pursue careers in academia. Please note that while the course does not qualify you to work as a dietician on graduation, many of our graduates go on to pursue one- to two-year postgraduate courses in Dietetics in the UK. This allows them to gain the extra clinical and relevant skills to become a qualified dietician, and many have gone on to careers in Dietetics through this route.