Cardiff Metropolitan University
UCAS Code: BD0F | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
Grade combinations totalling 56 points considered with a minimum grade C from at least 2 A-levels or equivalent
Successful completion of the Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at level 3
GCSE/National 4/National 5
Five GCSEs at grade C or above/grade 4 or above to include English Language, Maths and Science. For Welsh applicants we will accept either GCSE Mathematics or Mathematics-Numeracy. Five Scottish National 5 subjects at grade C or above to include English Language and Maths.
A minimum tariff of 24 to include 2 x H5
56 points from Higher Level, minimum H4 considered
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Grade combinations totalling 56 points considered to include a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers.
T Level
UCAS Tariff
56 UCAS tariff points from at least 2 A level or equivalent, to include a minimum C grade.
Grade combinations totalling 56 points considered with at least 1 A-level. Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate considered as second subject
About this course
This is a four-year programme that includes a year of foundational study and leads directly into the degree course. Our foundation year offers the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence, before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.
Our BSc (Hons) Food Science and Nutrition degree at Cardiff Met is an exciting development that gives you the opportunity to shape your programme to provide a strong foundation for your chosen career. You decide what your degree will look like as you understand more about the subject areas. Your choices will also reflect how your own interests evolve, and how your career goals are most effectively achieved.
The philosophy underpinning the design of the BSc Food Science and Nutrition degree clearly links to Cardiff Met’s mission statement to deliver high quality and high impact practice-focused and professionally recognised education.
This unique programme has two named pathways which you will select at the end of your first year of studies. Students on both pathways follow a common first year of study, after which you select either of the named pathways. The shared first year enables you to gain key skills for working within a range of public and private sector organisations in a variety of roles.
**BSc Food Science and Nutrition (Human Nutrition)** provides a programme of study that enables you to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to support future practice as a Registered Nutritionist. Students interested in working as a freelance nutritionist or further study to become an NHS dietitian would choose modules in health psychology and nutritional biochemistry and physiology in the second and final year to shape their programme.
**BSc Food Science and Nutrition (Quality, Safety and Innovation)** provides a programme of study that enables you to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to support technical aspects of organisations operating in the global food industry sector. Maximum student industrial exposure is assured by the inclusion of industrial visits and industrial work experience. Close links between the programme and the Zero2Five Food Industry Centre ensures a continuous dialogue with industry. Typically, a student interested in exploring working in the food industry would choose modules in food product development and food quality in the second and final year shape their programme.
**Professional Body Accreditation:**
BSc Food Science and Nutrition (Human Nutrition) is accredited by The Association for Nutrition
BSc Food Science and Nutrition (Quality, Safety and Innovation) is accredited by The Institute of Food Science and Technology
Tuition fees
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The Uni
Cardiff Met - Llandaff
Department of Healthcare and Food
What students say
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How do students rate their degree experience?
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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
Food sciences
Teaching and learning
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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
After graduation
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Top job areas of graduates
This is the subject you need to study if you want to become a dietician — an important job in the country’s healthcare sector, and the single most common job for nutrition graduates. We don’t have many graduates in nutrition every year and with the population becoming more aware of health and well-being and with many medical needs being addressed by the application of specific diets, this is likely to be an area of increasing demand in the future.
Food sciences
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
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Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Nutrition and dietetics
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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Food sciences
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
£22k
£27k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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