Manchester Metropolitan University
MSc in Human Nutrition
Manchester, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 21,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* EU and non-EU international students full-time fee
Key Summary
Through this one-year course, you’ll develop the skills and knowledge to work as a nutritionist in the clinical and public health and food industry sectors.
You’ll study the theory behind nutritional sciences, exploring topics from food guidelines to biochemistry to the distribution and control of disease. You’ll also have sessions in our laboratories where you’ll complete food practical and nutritional assessment evaluations.
During practical sessions, you’ll learn about the assessments conducted as a nutritionist. We use patient case studies, so you might complete a nutritional assessment for a patient with Crohn’s disease, diabetes or perhaps analyse a person’s diet.
Many of our students complete public health nutrition-based projects for their dissertations, focusing on areas they’re hoping to develop a career in. Recent topics include exploring the impact of eating patterns during the menopause, health benefits of vegan and vegetarian diets, impact of dietary acculturation on food intake, and understanding and adherence to dietary guidelines.
Features and Benefits
- Practical sessions - You’ll have practical sessions where you explore topics such as food composition, menu design for a specified population group, and how to conduct a nutritional assessment.
- Industry-standard facilities - You’ll use our on-campus food manufacturing facilities, which includes a 10-booth sensory taste panel suite, development kitchens, and food biochemistry and physiology laboratories.
- Teaching excellence - Our teaching team includes registered nutritionists, food scientists and a dietician.
- Accredited course - This course is an AfN accredited course. This means that when you graduate, you're eligible to apply for direct entry to the UKVRN Register as a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr).
Course information
Our human nutrition course aims to provide you with an in-depth understanding of the relationships between diet, disease, and health. You will study four modules and a dissertation. The modules cover a diversity of topics related to human nutrition such as nutritional assessment, public health nutrition, global health and sustainability and nutritional biochemistry. The course is designed to give you the skills to analyse and critically evaluate nutrition and food science theory and practice, so that you can develop a career as a nutritionist in the health and food sectors.
On this one-year course, you’ll have days with a mix of lectures, seminars, and practical sessions.
You’ll also learn about ethics for scientific research, research methodologies and statistical analysis packages, including how to appraise scientific research studies.
For your dissertation, you’ll typically submit a 2,000-word research proposal (ethics protocol) and an 8,000-word dissertation with your research findings written in the form of a research paper.
Our academic team at Manchester Met is made up of a range of experts including registered nutritionists, food scientists and dietitians. Many conduct research projects in their area of expertise, and you may have the opportunity to volunteer to help with projects.
Year 1 - Core modules
On the course you’ll study the following units:
- Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health
- Nutritional Assessment in Professional Practice
- Clinical Sciences For Nutrition And Dietetics
- Nutrition For Population Health And Sustainability
- Dissertation With Research Methods
From nutrition-related roles within government organisations to working in the media to food industry research and development, there’s a variety of career paths you could take as a nutritionist.
You might work in a health setting (such as a clinic) or perhaps set up a consultancy business as a nutritionist or develop your career within research or teaching nutrition.