MSc Public Health Nutrition
Edge Hill University
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Our MSc in Public Health Nutrition provides you with the answers to many current nutritional issues. Should we eat less saturated fat to improve heart health? Is folic acid fortification necessary? Can we continue to eat what we do and prevent global warming? On this degree, you’ll develop specialist scientific knowledge and practical skills to meet the nutritional challenges of the 21st Century.As well as the teaching and learning spaces, you’ll have access to our professional food science ...Read more

Our MSc in Public Health Nutrition provides you with the answers to many current nutritional issues. Should we eat less saturated fat to improve heart health? Is folic acid fortification necessary? Can we continue to eat what we do and prevent global warming? On this degree, you’ll develop specialist scientific knowledge and practical skills to meet the nutritional challenges of the 21st Century.

As well as the teaching and learning spaces, you’ll have access to our professional food science laboratory and kitchen, allowing you to carry out a variety of practical work with foods in a purpose-built environment.

Once you graduate, you’ll be able to make significant contributions to the field of nutrition, at a national and international level.

Your future career

Our MSc Public Health Nutrition prepares you for nutrition related roles in many public and private sector organisations. These include local authorities, charitable organisations, the NHS, health promotion organisations, the leisure industry and the private sector. Job roles include:

  • Nutritionist for food retailer
  • Scientific officer
  • Policy and communication officer
  • Nutrition and health adviser
  • Healthy lifestyle specialists

Alternatively, you might choose to progress to PhD study where you could focus on a specialist area of nutrition.

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54/101
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25th
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54th
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Rebecca
13 Feb 24

I absolutely love the campus and the atmosphere. I do think student life could be improved when the SU is built, but it is still really..Read more

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aymen
08 Feb 24

Its great experience so..Read more

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Entry requirements

You should have a degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honours (2:2 or above) in a relevant subject such as nutrition, dietetics, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, sport science, health, food science or biology. Applicants with a third class honours degree and/or relevant work experience would need to demonstrate a good level of knowledge in biosciences and will be considered on an individual basis.

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£9,000 per year

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£16,500 per year

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£16,500 per year

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Rebecca
13 Feb 24
Nutrition & Health BSc (Hons)
I absolutely love the campus and the atmosphere. I do think student life could be improved when the SU is built, but it is still really...
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aymen
08 Feb 24
MSc Public Health Nutrition
Its great experience so...
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Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University , Ormskirk

Edge Hill University has been inspiring minds since 1885 and continues to live up to its ethos of ‘creating opportunity from...

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Edge Hill University
St Helens Road Ormskirk Lancashire L39 4QP United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Ormskirk  0.4 miles away
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