Bachelor of Nutrition
Majoring in Nutrition
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Overview
Become a leader in the ever-expanding nutrition industry with a career-focussed, technology led education. You’ll study progressive food trends, sustainable nutrition and food’s impact on health and wellbeing in a lab-based environment. Choose our Bachelor of Nutrition for hands-on learning in state-of-the-art spaces, with clear pathways to postgraduate studies in dietetics. Graduates are eligible to apply for membership to Nutrition Society of Australia.
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Your industry experience
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Skills you’ll learn
- Food and nutrition assessment
- Lab-based skills in nutrition
- Translating nutritional scientific evidence
- Communicating scientific information
- Advocacy of nutrition issues
Your career opportunities
- Nutritionist
- Health promotion officer
- Food technologist
- Quality assurance officer
- Nutrition adviser
Key codes
International student visa
International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.
Why Swinburne?
Ranked Top 500 in Public Health
ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022
#1 in Melbourne for graduate salary 5 years out - $85.3K (national average $66.3K)
86% of graduates found employment within 4 months of completing their course