Food and Health, MSc, University of Padua

Italy

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The award	How you will study	Study duration	Course start	Domestic course fees	International course fees
MSc	Full-time	2 years	October	-	EUR 2739 per year

About Food and Health, MSc - at University of Padua

The Master’s degree addresses the complexity underling the interactions among food, nutrition and human health in an international context, with a paradigm-based structure “from food harvest to global health”. The modern teaching approach aims at filling the existing gaps among the different disciplines currently offered in this area, providing multidisciplinary, complementary, highly integrated knowledge. The programme offers both strong theoretical courses and applied research-oriented teaching on food production, food quality and human nutrition, in order to analyse how they relate and affect human health, via dietary habits.

Programme structure

1st Year
• Food safety hygiene and microbiology
• Food chemistry and technology
• Nutrition and metabolic pathways: from organs to cells
• Genomics of Nutrition
• Communication skills
• Food microbiota, human microbiome, plant bioactive compounds and food quality
• Plant bioactive compounds and food quality
• Food microbiota and human microbiome
• Ecology of foodborne pathogens, food toxicology and antimicrobial resistance
• Sustainable resource-efficient food production and processing
• International regulations for food safety, certification and trading
• Mechanisms of tissues diseases and how environmental clues alter organ function

2nd Year
• Research methods in economics: understanding decision making and consumer behavior to promote healthy choices.
• Quality control and data analytics in food production
• Nutrition-related diseases
• Human Nutrition: sustainability and multidisciplinary perspective

Career opportunities

Potential areas of employment:

• Product development and research specialist in the food industry
• Expert in food and nutrition areas of private and public administration
• Agri-food and nutritional advisory specialist of GDO or food manufacturers
• Food quality and nutritional expert in international organizations
• Independent consultancy practitioner
• Food quality and nutrition expert in public health
• Clinical Dietitian Manager
• Health Educator
• Food quality and nutrition communications specialist
• Advisory specialist in NGOs, charities and projects concerned with food quality and nutritional issues
• Researcher in food quality, nutrition and health

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Notes about fees for this course

Our tuition fees will not exceed 3000 euros per year. Scholarship and fee waivers are available for international students, for more information visit our website.

Entry requirements

Bachelor diploma (or equivalent)

A minimum three-year undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in Agricultural Science, Forest Science, Food science, Animal Science, Dietetic, Applied Pharmaceutical Science, Biology, Biomedical engineering, Biotechnology, Molecular biology or related fields.

Additional entry requirements – Entry title and GPA
Please verify country-based specific entry title and GPA requirements at the following link.

The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian.

You can often get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original.

You must take the original entry qualification documents with you when you finally go to the university.

If you are admitted to the degree course, you will have to submit other documents including original and translated/legalised copies of your previous qualifications, etc. No legalised documents are required at application stage.

English B2 Level (CEFR) or equivalent certificate

Please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions

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