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Join the Food Science & Nutrition Department at Cal Poly, and you’ll open yourself up to a world of opportunities. Our graduates find challenging careers in the food processing industry—the largest industry in the world—and in the rapidly expanding field of human nutrition. The focus at Cal Poly is on hands-on learning experiences to support the solid knowledge base gained in the classroom.
Our applied, laboratory-based courses, taught in a food processing pilot plant, are designed to educate you about functional components of foods, food safety, sensory evaluation, quality assurance, new product development, food chemistry, food processing and engineering, and much more. Outside the classroom, an abundance of summer work experiences and internships will enable you to put Cal Poly’s learn-by-doing experience into practice. Career opportunities for Food Science graduates are as diverse as the products on supermarket shelves.
The Food Science & Nutrition Department offers the following degree programs:
* B.S. in Food Science (approved by the Institute of Food Technologists)
* B.S. in Nutrition (approved by The American Dietetic Association)
Curriculum will provide you with a strong foundation in the science of human nutrition plus the opportunity to focus in one of the following four concentrations:
* Applied Nutrition — a broad-based general nutrition curriculum that provides a route to becoming a
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