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: 2025
Next start date:
- September 2025
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.
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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
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 |
| Global Food 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 |
| Agrifood Communication and Behaviour Change | 10 |
| Research Project | 40 |
| Personalised Nutrition | 10 |
| Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health | 30 |
We base these figures and graphs on the most up-to-date information available to us. They are based on the modules chosen by our students in 2024-25.
Teaching time is made up of:
- scheduled learning and teaching activities. These are timetabled activities with a member of staff present.
- structured guided learning. These are activities developed by staff to support engagement with module learning. Students or groups of students undertake these activities without direct staff participation or supervision
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:
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Case studies
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Dissertation or research project
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Essays
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Examinations – practical or online
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Presentations
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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.
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.
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.
Facilities and environment
Facilities
You'll be based at our Newcastle city-centre campus, in the School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sports Sciences. The School is in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, which is also home to Dentistry, Medicine, Psychology and Pharmacy, encouraging inter-professional collaboration.
We've invested £32 million in new facilities for nutrition teaching and research, which opened in 2020. You'll have access to our nutrition training suite, including a food handling laboratory, consultation rooms and sensory analysis booths to help you enhance your practical skills. You’ll also have use of well-equipped, biomedical science laboratories.
Situated next to Newcastle’s RVI hospital, we’re one of the largest integrated teaching/hospital complexes in the country.
Research Excellence in Nutrition and Exercise
To enhance your learning experience, you will be part of a thriving research community at the Human Nutrition and Exercise Research Centre. Our team of experts is dedicated to advancing the understanding of nutrition, exercise, and their combined impact on health, wellbeing and disease. You will have the opportunity to engage with, and participate in, cutting-edge research and gain insights that will enrich your academic journey.
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Support
We provide plenty of support to help you successfully move from school to university study. We’ll help you settle in quickly and are here if you have any issues.
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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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 2025 entry.
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Other UK and the Republic of Ireland qualifications
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Tuition fees and scholarships
Tuition fees for academic year 2025-2026
See our ‘Home Fee Students’ and ‘International Fee Students’ information below for more information on tuition fee levels, fee status and inflationary fee increases.
| Qualification: BSc Honours | |
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Home students full time 3 years |
Tuition fees (Year 1)
£9,535 |
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International students full time 3 years |
Tuition fees (Year 1)
30000 |
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