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Overview

Our Nutrition MSc course is an intensive one year programme ideal for graduates in biological sciences or medicine. We will give you a broad knowledge and understanding of the field of nutrition and develop your scientific skills to a graduate level. You will study with some of the world’s foremost experts and undertake a research project under their guidance.

Key benefits

  • Well-established, broad-based course covering all aspects of nutrition.
  • Taught in a research-led environment by staff who are experts in a wide variety of specialities.
  • An excellent steppingstone to nutrition planning, teaching or research in the health and education services, government, or the food industry.
  • Located in the heart of London.
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Our internationally renowned programme will provide a broad knowledge and understanding of nutrition and allow you to develop your scientific skills to postgraduate level.
Annemarie Knight
Annemarie Knight RDHead of Department of Nutrition & Dietetics

Course essentials

This is a recording of the Nutrition session from Postgraduate Virtual Open Week 2025. Please note that captions are auto-generated.

Our course will instruct you in the principles of nutrition, public health nutrition, clinical nutrition and nutrition research skills. The MSc is an intensive course which we have designed with the needs of graduates in biological sciences or medicine in mind.

The course is accredited by The Association for Nutrition, which means graduates may register as associate nutritionists on the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists, a body which aims to regulate the professional practice of nutrition.

Administrative bodies

Course accreditation

Reviewed, inspected and accredited by the The Association for Nutrition

Regulating body

Application closing date guidance

Base campus

Students walking across Guy's Campus quad on a summers day

Guy’s Campus

Tucked next to London Bridge and the historic Borough Market, Guy's Campus is a close-knit home for health and science students. With cutting-edge labs and buzzing central location, it offers an inspiring and unique place to study.