Program Overview

Program Overview

The Doble Grado en Nutrición Humana y Dietética y Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos is a double degree program that provides a comprehensive education in nutrition, dietetics, and food science. The program is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to work in various fields, including healthcare, food industry, and research.

Program Details

• Duration: 5 years (342 ECTS)
• Language of Instruction: Spanish
• Mode of Study: Presencial
• Cut-off Note: 10,870
• Approximate Course Price (1st Registration): 1365 (extracomunitarios: 9005 )
• Centers: Facultad de Ciencias

Program Description

This double degree program allows students to obtain two university degrees, one in Human Nutrition and Dietetics and the other in Food Science and Technology. The program provides a global education in food and health, with a focus on sanitary and scientific-technological aspects. It aims to train professionals who can intervene in individual and collective nutrition in various fields, from clinics to food companies.

Objectives and Competencies

The program's objectives and competencies can be found in the downloadable PDF document.

Academic Offer

• Plan of Studies: The program's plan of studies is available for download.
• Complementary Offer: Transversal and optional subjects from other degrees are available.
• Recognition of Credits: Credits can be recognized for university activities and higher-level FP.

Admission and Enrollment

• Step 1: Access
  • Information on access through PAU, over 25 years old, etc.
• Step 2: Request for a Place
  • All necessary information for pre-enrollment.
• Step 3: Enrollment
  • Deadlines and necessary procedures for enrollment.

Profile of Admission

This program is suitable for:

• Those interested in the relationship between nutrition, food, and health.
• Those who want to know the scientific bases of industrial processes involved in the production of healthy foods.
• Those who believe that food technology is necessary to achieve new foods adapted to the needs of contemporary society.

Professional Outlets

Graduates can work in:

• Sanitary field: individual or collective dietary advice for healthy or sick people.
• Collective restoration: management of collective restoration services, proposal of food programs adapted to different groups.
• Industry and food safety: R&D of new healthy foods and diets; evaluation of hygienic-sanitary and toxicological risks of foods and ingredients; production, quality control, and food analysis departments, etc.

Quality

• External Monitoring: Verification, modification, monitoring, and renewal of accreditation.
• Indicators of Monitoring of the Degree: Available on the UAMDATA portal.
• Labor Insertion: Available through the employability observatory link.
• Internal System of Quality Guarantee
• Quality UAM
• Complaints and Suggestions Box