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Nutrition with Food Marketing BSc Honours

  • UCAS code: BD46
  • Full time
  • 3 years

Our accredited Nutrition with Food Marketing degree explores the links between diet and health and how marketing plays its role within this, to prepare you for a career in the nutrition industry.

You are currently viewing course information for entry year: 2024-25


Next start date:

  • September 2024

Fees (per year)

  • Home: £9250
  • International: £25800

Entry requirements and offers

  • A-Level: ABB
  • IB: 32 points

UCAS Institution name and code:

  • NEWC / N21

Course overview

This three-year nutrition with food marketing degree focuses on developing your critical and analytical skills. Ensuring you will graduate as a conscientious and socially aware food professional, ready for a career in nutrition and marketing. 

Our industry-recognised qualification helps to fast-track your career. You will be able to apply for direct entry into the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists as soon as you graduate.

Our degree's teaching is informed by the research carried out by experts based at Newcastle University. This guarantees your studies are at the cutting edge of industry developments, so you graduate with the most up-to-date knowledge of nutrition and food marketing. 

Studying one of our Nutrition and Dietetics courses means that you'll look at nutrition from the cellular and molecular level through to people and populations. You'll explore topics such as: human nutrition, marketing strategy and consumer behaviour, while developing a holistic understanding of the global food system.

Students working in the food lab

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Modules and learning

Modules

The information below is intended to provide an example of what you will study.

Most degrees are divided into stages. Each stage lasts for one academic year, and you'll complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each stage. 

Our teaching is informed by research. Course content may change periodically to reflect developments in the discipline, the requirements of external bodies and partners, and student feedback.

Optional module availability
Student demand for optional modules may affect availability.

Full details of the modules on offer will be published through the Programme Regulations and Specifications ahead of each academic year. This usually happens in May.

To find out more please see our terms and conditions.

You are introduced to the underlying sciences of nutrition and food marketing. You will study modules in nutrition, physiology, marketing, consumer behaviour and business economics.

You will also be introduced to agri-food systems, covering issues arising throughout the food chain from production to consumption, as well as the nature and properties of different foods and nutrients.

Modules

Compulsory Modules Credits
Food Studies 20
Introduction to Marketing and Consumer Behaviour 20
Introductory Business Economics 10
Human Physiology and Practical Skills 30
Introduction to Nutrition 10
Practical and Career Development Skills for Nutrition 10
Bioenergetics 20

You will continue to develop your core knowledge of nutrition and other relevant areas. In Nutrition, you'll explore nutritional assessment and the importance of good nutrition at each life stage. You'll also investigate food science and food product development, and you study concepts and applications of marketing strategy.

In the module New Food Product Development, you engage in teamwork with other students to address the key issues and practical steps involved in developing a new food product.

Modules

Compulsory Modules Credits
Marketing Strategy 20
New Food Product Development 20
Marketing and Public Policy 10
Macro- and Micronutrients 20
Food Science and Technology 20
Nutrition Through the Lifecycle 10
Measurement and Assessment of Dietary Intake and Nutritional Status 20

In the final year, you will study areas such as nutrition and its relation to health and disease, metabolic and personalised nutrition, marketing metrics, and communication as a means to effect positive behaviour change.

Modules

Compulsory Modules Credits
Data & Marketing Analytics 10
Communication and Behaviour Change 10
Research Project 40
Personalised Nutrition 10
Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health 30
Optional Modules Credits
Contemporary Issues in Food and Human Nutrition 20
Nutrition Enterprise and Career Skills 20
Allergens and the Food Industry 20
Eating and Weight Disorders 20
Making Sense of Forgotten Senses: Investigating Olfaction and Gustation 20
Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition 20

Teaching and assessment

Teaching methods

Contact hours are made up of a combination of:

  • lectures
  • seminars
  • small group tutorials
  • practical classes

You supplement this with weekly private study of recommended reading materials.

Assessment methods

You'll be assessed through a combination of:

  • Case studies

  • Dissertation or research project

  • Essays

  • Examinations – practical or online

  • Presentations

  • Projects

Skills and experience

Practical skills

You'll have access to our state-of-the-art learning facilities, which you will use to carry out a variety of practical activities throughout the duration of your degree. 

You'll have the opportunity to attend a national conference on food and human nutrition – if you choose the optional module – where you'll hear from world-leading experts in the field. This also gives you the chance to network with other people working across the nutrition industry.

Research skills

In the third year of your degree, you'll complete a research project. The aim of the project is to provide you with experience of planning, researching and analysing a topic that interests you.

You will develop your research skills, as well as your problem-solving, analysis and presentation skills.

Chat with a Food and Human Nutrition student

Angela

Opportunities

Work placement

This human nutrition degree is also available with a year's work placement, as a four-year programme.

You'll apply to spend 9 to 12 months working in any organisation in the world, and receive University support from our dedicated team to secure your dream placement. Work placements take place in Stage 3.

You'll gain first-hand experience of working in the sector, putting your learning into practice and developing your professional expertise.

Placements are subject to availability.

Find out more about work placements

Facilities and environment

Facilities

Our Nutrition and Food courses are based in the School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences at our city-centre campus. Our School is part of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, which is home to Dentistry, Medicine, Psychology and Pharmacy, encouraging inter-professional collaboration. 

You'll have access to our food handling laboratory to help you enhance your practical skills and use of our well-equipped, state-of-the-art laboratories. 

Situated next to Newcastle’s RVI hospital, we’re one of the largest integrated teaching/hospital complexes in the country.

Support

You'll have the support of an academic member of staff as a personal tutor throughout your degree to help with academic and personal issues.

Peer mentors will help you in your first year. They are fellow students who can help you settle in and answer any questions you have when starting university.

Your future

There is great demand for scientists with a knowledge of nutrition. A wide range of opportunities exist across the sector, including:

  • product development or quality assurance in the food industry
  • with non-commercial bodies such as the Medical Research Council or Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • in research development
  • in an advisory capacity with groups concerned with the communication of health messages and food safety advice

Graduates have gone on to take up roles, such as:

  • dietetic assistant
  • nutritionist
  • food technologist
  • food buyer
  • product development technologist
  • sports nutritionist

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Recognition of professional qualifications outside of the UK

From 1 January 2021 there is an update to the way professional qualifications are recognised by countries outside of the UK

Entry requirements

All candidates are considered on an individual basis and we accept a broad range of qualifications. The entrance requirements and offers below apply to 2024 entry.

A-Level
International Baccalaureate

Other UK and the Republic of Ireland qualifications

Contextual Offers

Through one of our contextual routes, you could receive an offer of up to three grades lower than the typical requirements.

What is a contextual offer? Find out more and if you’re eligible for this or our PARTNERS Programme supported entry route.

Qualifications from outside the UK

English Language requirements

Entrance courses (INTO)

International Pathway Courses are specialist programmes designed for international students who want to study in the UK. We provide a range of study options for international students in partnership with INTO. 

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Credit transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) can allow you to convert existing relevant university-level knowledge, skills and experience into credits towards a qualification. Find out more about the RPL policy which may apply to this course.

Tuition fees and scholarships

Tuition fees for 2024 entry (per year)

Qualification: BSc Honours

Home students

full time 3 years

Tuition fees (per year)

9250

International students

full time 3 years

Tuition fees (per year)

25800

Year abroad and additional costs

For programmes where you can spend a year on a work placement or studying abroad, you will receive a significant fee reduction for that year. 

Some of our degrees involve additional costs which are not covered by your tuition fees.

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