Program Overview

Course summary

BSc (Honours) Human Nutrition and Health

This Association for Nutrition accredited course provides the knowledge, skills, and experience you’ll need to improve individuals’ health, wellbeing, and performance – and more broadly, to benefit society and the planet.

Course details

• Duration: 3 / 4 Years
• Location: City Campus
• UCAS code: A007
• Entry requirements: 112-120 UCAS points, including at least 64 points from 2 A Levels or equivalent BTEC qualifications
• Tuition fees: £9,535 per year (Home students, 2025/26), £18,000 per year (International/EU students, 2026/27)

Course structure

Year 1

• Applied Academic Skills (20 credits): Develop academic skills for successful completion of Level 4 and progression to further undergraduate study
• Food Choice: People And Planet (40 credits): Understand the impact of food choices on people and the planet
• Fundamentals Of Food And Nutrition: Composition, Safety And Nutrient Function (40 credits): Introduce students to the micro/macronutrients, non-nutrients, anti-nutrients, and their functions
• Physiology And Biochemistry For Nutrition (20 credits): Introduce students to core principles in physiology and biochemistry with a specific emphasis on the physiology of the gastrointestinal tract and the metabolism of macronutrients

Year 2

• Applied Nutrition: Populations, Policy And Practice (20 credits): Enhance students’ critical approach in understanding how nutrition policy, strategy, and initiatives can be applied to influence population health outcomes
• Nutrition And Health In The Digital Age (20 credits): Broaden awareness of the diversity of the digital world, specifically in relation to nutrition and health
• Nutrition In Health And Disease: Meeting Specific Needs (40 credits): Explore diet, physical activity, nutrition policy, and dietary guidelines through the lifecycle and how these are shaped by physiological and biochemical changes
• Personal And Professional Development (40 credits): Provide opportunities for students to prepare for and experience work environment(s) relevant to their sector and reflect on and hone personal and professional skills

Year 3

• Food And Nutrition Consultancy Challenge (40 credits): Take a practical and applied ‘consultancy’ approach, developing and presenting solutions to real-world food
  utrition challenges on behalf of a real client
• Food And Nutrition Research (40 credits): Equip students with a sound working understanding of research methods and methodologies relevant to food and nutrition
• Wellbeing Service Provision (20 credits): Acquire knowledge and understanding of wellbeing service provision and develop practical skills relevant to the successful design, delivery, and evaluation of wellbeing services

Optional modules

• Global Issues In Nutrition And Health (20 credits): Widen students’ appreciation and understanding of a range of contemporary, developing, and global issues in nutrition and public health
• Issues In Sports Nutrition (20 credits): Introduce students to a range of topical issues relevant to the field of sports and performance nutrition

Facilities and equipment

• State-of-the-art specialist facilities, including a nutrition and physiology lab, food science lab, extensive kitchens, and a sensory and feeding facility
• Specialist equipment for nutrient and energy quantification, health and physical activity measurement, and body composition assessment

Career prospects

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

Entry requirements

• 112-120 UCAS points, including at least 64 points from 2 A Levels or equivalent BTEC qualifications
• English Language at grade C or 4
• Maths at grade C or 4
• Two sciences at grade C or 4 (Chemistry, Biology, Physics or double science equivalents)

Fees and funding

• Home students: £9,535 per year (2025/26)
• International/EU students: £18,000 per year (2026/27)
• Financial support available for home/EU students

Additional course costs

• Estimated general course additional costs
• Costs associated with key activities on specific courses

Legal information

• Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.