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This innovative and interdisciplinary “Food Quality and Safety” master’s programme offers you a life sciences-oriented focus complemented by an equal share of legal and economic courses. This course is suitable for students with a Bachelor‘s degree, e.g. in natural, nutrition or health sciences.
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The core competencies taught in the programme will enable our graduating Master students to understand and solve problems in the field of food quality and safety from an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective. To this end, the course is interdisciplinary in design, combining a life science focus (e.g. biology of crop plants and animals, food microbiology, biochemistry and physiology of nutrition, food chemistry and toxicology) with an approximately equal share of legal, social and economic studies. The modules of the master’s curriculum comprise Biology and Biochemistry of Food, Human Biology, Food Chemistry, Data Science/Bioinformatics/Statistics, Food Law, Food Trade Law, Safety and Risk Management Law, Quality Management, Food Supply Chain Management, and Science Communication.
Requirements for the admission to the study programme are:
- a Bachelor's degree with a final grade of 2.5 ("gut") or better in the bachelor programmes Biology, Biochemistry, Food Sciences or a comparable degree in the field of Life Sciences;
- the successful completion of an aptitude test;
- a language certificate ENGLISH level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
- a language certificate GERMAN level A1 of the CEFR; can be obtained during the first year of the programme.
For applicants with the German Abitur: The language level B2+/C1 or better is accepted as proof of your English language skills. This is usually achieved if you have studied English from the 5th grade until the Abitur.
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- About the Programme
- Practical Training in State-of-the-Art Laboratories
- Study in an international environment
- Become employable in multiple fast-growing fields
- Benefit from close cooperations with authorities, institutes and companies in the Kulmbach Food City
Food is fundamentally different from other goods: It is highly complex! Changes occur during its production, transport and storage. Understanding the complexity of food can help us meet the challenge of feeding a growing world population with high quality and safe food in the most sustainable way. You will explore these and related topics in the Master's degree programme in “Food Quality and Safety”.
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Quelle: Universität Bayreuth/ Campus Kulmbach
We attach great importance to practical training for our students. For this reason, all natural science modules include a comprehensive practical laboratory course. Under qualified supervision, our students learn modern laboratory techniques and analytical methods in laboratories specially equipped for teaching which they can then apply to their own exciting experiments.
Quelle: Universität Bayreuth/ Campus Kulmbach
Small classes and close personal contact with lecturers and the Study Service create ideal study conditions for international students. The Campus in Kulmbach offers students the opportunity to make international contacts while studying in Kulmbach, as more than half of the students come from abroad. Study content is taught in a global context and made tangible through intensive intercultural exchange.
Quelle: Universität Bayreuth/ Campus Kulmbach
Questions of food quality and safety are an area of research that is developing at a rapid pace, and will therefore demand a high degree of flexibility and adaptability from future experts. As a graduate of the master's programme “Food Quality and Safety”, you will be the sought-after specialist in many sectors – taking up leadership roles in research, the food industry, health management authorities as well as politics and media.
Quelle: Universität Bayreuth/ Campus Kulmbach
The University’s Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health is located in the beautiful town of Kulmbach, home not only to several internationally operating food companies but also to the Max Rubner Institute, the Bavarian Control Authority for Food Safety and Veterinary Medicine, the State Technical College for Food Technology, the Competence Centre for Nutrition, and the Kulmbach Clinical Centre. Because of this, students get involved in various research projects associated with the Faculty's teaching activities.
Quelle: Universität Bayreuth/ Campus Kulmbach
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Standorte
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Campus Kulmbach
Uni Bayreuth
Fritz-Hornschuch-Str. 13
95326 Kulmbach
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