Bachelor of Nutrition and Food Sciences

University of South Australia - City East Campus

Australia,South Australia

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36 Months

Duration

CAD 40,900/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 0 FREE

Application Fee

Jul 2025

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Australia, South Australia

Type: University

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1991

Total Students: 37,000 +

Int. Students: 5,500 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

Corner of North Terrace and, Frome Rd, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia

Bachelor of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Program Overview

Start your unstoppable career in the health and food industry, where you can drive innovation and change in sustainable food product development, and community health.

You can become actively involved in promoting and managing diets and lifestyles, conducting research for enhanced wellbeing, developing innovative and sustainable foods, and more. You'll graduate ready to make an immediate impact on healthy eating habits across the greater community.

You can also grow your knowledge and increase your career opportunities by studying for a double degree in the complimentary fields of Human Movement or Exercise and Sport Science.


What you'll learn

This unique degree offers practice-based and theoretical learning to ensure you’re primed for a healthy career.

During the first two years you’ll explore both nutrition and food science topics, gaining a strong understanding of the key elements of each. You’ll complete group work and research on topics, including environmentally sustainable food practice, in the sensory lab. You’ll get to analyse micro-organisms and explore key topics like food contamination in the microbiology lab. 

Your knowledge will be developed in:

  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Health in our society
  • Human and lifespan nutrition
  • Biochemistry
  • Physiology
  • The chemistry of food
  • Food quality and safety
  • Relationships between food bioactives and health
  • Consumer education
  • Influences of the senses on consumer food choice
  • Food sustainability

In your third year you’ll specialise in either a nutrition or food science stream.

If you choose nutrition, you’ll get to develop:

  • Essential communication skills across a variety of platforms
  • Skills to promote good health through food and nutrition in the community
  • Dietary and exercise plans to manage weight
  • Nutrition for sports, exercise and activity
  • Sustainable nutrition choices


If you choose food science, you’ll focus on:

  • Food microbiology
  • Quality assurance in food processing and manufacturing
  • Developing safe, nutritionally and environmentally sound foods for the marketplace
  • Food and beverage fermentation