The Food Science with Business course offers you the unique opportunity to develop skills in business alongside your scientific expertise. The food industry is Europe's largest and arguably most important business and employs over one million people in the UK alone. Graduates from this course are well qualified to enter directly into a management position in the food industry or related sectors. For its continuing success, the food industry needs managers with up to date scientific knowledge who can make informed decisions about the future of their business.

Graduating with a food degree from the University of Reading will ensure your career prospects are very good indeed. For it is Reading's strong links with Industry and our commitment to quality tuition combined with an established placement scheme that makes our graduates the number one choice for many employers in the industry. Food Industry has stayed relatively buoyant and is the single largest employer within the UK with over 7000 individual food processing companies in the UK alone. The commercial sector is also the most stable industry during the current economic downturn with the value of the sector still increasing. After all everybody has to eat right! In stark contrast however several large firms within the industry have identified the need for more young talent within the industry and in many cases only a Food-specific degree provides the necessary skills. Northern Foods is just one of the firms to identify this shortfall and are offering scholarships to those promising students. Many students build on successful industrial placements entering into industry to work in Technical, Quality Control, Supply Chain or Product Development. There are also commercial and management options available to you such as Account Management, Buying and Marketing.While some students decide they wish to further pursue their academic career and stay on to work in research. Many students choose not to work in the supply chain but directly with the retailers or research companies. Our recent graduates gaining employment with a wide range of companies including: Tesco, Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer, Glaxo SmithKline, Unilever, Mars, etc.