Postgraduate taught courses
In Food and Nutritional Sciences we offer some exciting MSc courses. But why should you come and join us? Food and Nutritional Sciences at Reading is unique. Reading has the largest department of its kind in the UK and we are internationally recognised for the quality of our teaching and research in many aspects of food and nutrition. Under one roof we have leading experts in all of the component disciplines – no other UK department can make this claim.
You will be taught by acknowledged world authorities in areas as diverse as human nutrition, food analysis, food processing, microbiology and sensory analysis. In the last RAE, the Department was awarded the grade 5A for the internationally competitive excellence of our research. This included the identification of the reactions that lead to the production of acrylamide in food – a major food contaminant causing concern at present.
The Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences offers three postgraduate MSc course:
All the courses offered are one year full-time modular courses starting in the first week in October and ending during the following September.
Students come from many different countries to attend these courses. Every year is different but for 2011-2012, we have MSc students from: Britain, Canada, China, Cyprus, Ghana, Greece, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Thailand and Turkey - all are welcome!
Opportunity to have a chat with the MSc Teaching Director
If you have a webcam and a Skype account, you can now contact the MSc Teaching Director and have a live chat: Talk to the MSc Teaching Director using Skype
When to apply:
We accept applications throughout the year and process them as they arrive. You can usually expect to hear back from us with an offer (or a rejection) within about 4 weeks. Most applications are received during February-May. After this time we can assess the number of offers that we have made and if we find that we are making more offers than usual, it is possible that we will stop accepting new applications. Although it is likely that we will continue to look at new applications, you are therefore encouraged to apply before the end of May.
International students requiring visas are in any case advised to submit their applications as early as possible to allow time to complete the visa application process.