bsc food science stellenbosch 2024-2025

bsc food science stellenbosch 2024-2025

Stellenbosch University offers a food science bachelor’s degree.

This program is for you if you have the capacity for problem-solving, are imaginative, and have a keen interest in the science of food.

Students are taught how to transform raw materials into cutting-edge, secure, healthful, and delectable food products that are sold in supermarkets during this four-year program. You will learn how to use your knowledge of the basic sciences, including chemistry, biochemistry, physics, mathematics, and microbiology, to develop new products and process, preserve, and package food.

Through routine factory visits and required industry training, this program keeps close contact with the South African food industry. You will be exposed to many different facets of food science as a result of this.

Graduates of the BSc Food Sc program may find employment as managers or as creative product developers in the production, product development, quality control, research and development, and technical areas of food companies. They may also work as entrepreneurs, researchers in tertiary and research institutions, or, after gaining enough expertise, consultants for the food industry. Food scientists from Stellenbosch University are in high demand all over the world.

Stellenbosch University offers a Bachelor of Science in Food Science at the following locations.

An outline of the degree structure for the four-year BSc Food Science degree:

First Year
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Computer Skills
Mathematics
Introduction to Food Science

Second Year
Biochemistry
Biometry
Chemistry
Microbiology
Food Processing and Preservation

Third Year
Food Biochemistry
Food Chemistry
Microbiology
Meat Science, Nutrition, Food Safety, Cereal Science & Sensory Science

Fourth Year 

Product Development