Program Overview

BSc (Honours) Food and Nutrition with Foundation Year

Course summary

This course prepares you for a variety of roles in the fast-paced food sector, the UK’s largest manufacturing sector. You’ll learn how to balance demands for nutritional quality, shelf life, sustainability and various sensory attributes – as well as managing food safety across a range of food manufacturing and retail contexts.

How you learn

You learn through:

• Lectures, seminars and workshops
• Practical sessions in our food science and nutrition labs, development kitchens and sensory suite
• Webinars and competitions
• Live projects with schools, voluntary sector organisations and food businesses
• Independent study and group work

Modules

Year 1

• Going Global
• People, Decisions And Behaviours
• Preparing For Success
• Sustainable Innovation

Year 2

• Applied Academic Skills
• Food Business Management
• Food Choice: People And Planet
• Fundamentals Of Food And Nutrition: Composition, Safety And Nutrient Function

Year 3

• Applied Nutrition: Populations, Policy And Practice
• Food Innovation And Product Development
• Personal And Professional Development
• Sustainable Food: Preservation, Processing And Packaging

Year 4

• Study Abroad - Sheffield Business School
• Placement Year

Final year

• Food And Nutrition Consultancy Challenge
• Food And Nutrition Research
• Food Quality Management
• Global Issues In Nutrition And Health
• Issues In Sports Nutrition

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in:

• Nutrition
• Weight and diabetes management
• Behaviour change
• Public health
• Food industry (nutrition)
• Sports nutrition
• Scientific affairs
• Research (including postgraduate research degrees)

Equipment and facilities

You’ll work in state-of-the-art specialist facilities:

• A nutrition and physiology lab
• A food science lab
• Extensive kitchens
• A sensory and feeding facility

You’ll use specialist equipment to:

• Perform nutrient and energy quantification
• Assess health and physical activity measurement
• Estimate body composition (e.g. bio-electrical impedance analyser)
• Measure strength and power output (e.g. dynamometers)
• Characterise the composition of foods (e.g. Soxhlet apparatus)

Where will I study?

You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Entry requirements

• UCAS points: 64
• GCSE: English Language at grade C or 4 or equivalent, Maths at grade C or 4 or equivalent
• ACCESS: Access to HE Diploma, with at least 45 level 3 credits

Fees and funding

• Home students: Tuition fees for 2026/27 are not yet confirmed. Our tuition fee for UK students on this course in 2025/26 is £5,760 for the foundation year and £9,535 per year for the degree (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)
• International students: Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2026/27 is £18,000 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)