Nutrition Sciences, B.Sc.
Nutrition plays a central role in health research. Unilateral diet and obesity are clearly associated with a variety of diseases such as diabetes mellitus or cardiovascular diseases. But the development of tumor diseases is also linked to nutrition; it even plays a greater role than smoking. Occasionally, pollutants can also be detected in food. Antibiotics in meat products, dioxins in eggs or heavy metals in fish are increasingly making headlines in the daily newspapers. Food, nutrition and human metabolism are therefore among the current focal points and key future topics for society. The production of new types of food as well as the diagnosis and therapy of nutritional diseases require a new quality of knowledge, with food science, medicine and nutritional science cooperating.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
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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 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €372.80 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →What you study
On the basis of scientific methods, nutritional science examines the effect and function of food ingredients, processes in food utilization, and the mechanisms of action and elucidation of signal cascades of metabolic processes. With her research results, she makes a significant contribution to maintaining the health, performance and well-being of people.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The nutritional science course teaches scientific and biomedical basics that enable employment in applied nutritional science research. In particular, activities in basic research, industrial food product development and other areas of industrial and clinical research are developed through the course. Furthermore, the basic knowledge, methods and skills of experimental nutritional research should prepare for the study of the consecutive master's program.
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Studying is not the same as training as a nutritionist. The Bachelor of Science degree and the acquired scientific and nutritional knowledge also qualify for work in this area, furthermore in media work or work in national and international organizations and authorities.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Brandenburg), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €372.80 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | Nutritional science is a specialist discipline composed of many sub-areas. |
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| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
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 15.07uni-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.
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The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 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.