Ecotrophology, B.A.
A practical focus has the highest priority in the Ecotrophology program at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. In special laboratory courses, food is produced and evaluated. Students also get to know the many facets of quality management. They work on nutritional physiology, sensors, hygiene, and technological and economic requirements. This means that they are later able to advise end consumers on nutritional and household issues. Or they take on challenging tasks in mid-level management in the food and household management industry.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
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| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.09 |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €76 per semester |
| Campus | Campus Bernburg |
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Will I get in
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
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Ecotrophology aims to train interdisciplinary experts whose core competence is in serving consumers in the complex economic, social, and political environment. In operations that produce goods for end consumers, in particular food producers, these experts work on manufacturing products that correspond to the requirements regarding nutritional physiology, senses, hygiene, technology, and the economy. With direct or indirect contact, the experts also enable consumers to make competent decisions in their daily actions, especially those related to nutrition.
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Ecotrophologists work as division managers, heads of operation, in product development, or in food companies’ quality or hygiene management. They also work in community catering, in large households, in service operations, or in public agencies. Additional fields of activity include market research, continuing education, and consulting consumers, debtors, or about nutrition.
What you study
Ecotrophology (Greek: oikos "apartment, house", trophé "food, nutrition" and lógos "teaching, customer") is the teaching of household and nutrition. The focus of scientific interest in ecotrophology studies is therefore on human nutrition and its food supply.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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With a Bachelor's degree, you can work in middle management or as a self-employed person. Ecotrophologists work as department heads, as plant managers, as product developers, in quality management or in the hygiene management of companies in the food industry, public catering, in large households, in service companies or in authorities. Other fields of activity include market research, training and further education as well as consumer, debtor and nutritional advice.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Saxony-Anhalt), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €76 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
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| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.09 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application via uni-assist until 15.09uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 4Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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The deadline is 15.09.2027 (336 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.