Nutritional Sciences, B.Sc.
The ecotrophology course is a practice-oriented, professionally qualifying course on a scientific basis. It combines natural, social and economic subjects. The course enables students to design and implement nutritional advice and educational offers for healthy and sick people, as well as to develop and test food, equipment and manufacturing processes. In addition to the organization of services in the catering and supply area, implementation and control of food safety and product quality are further focal points in the course.
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, Part-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €338 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
At the beginning of the course, the basics in business administration, chemistry, social research and statistics, ergonomics, nutritional physiology, human biology, communication, psychology, sociology, food and nutrition theory, food science and process engineering, mathematics, physics , Technology, IT and scientific methodology conveyed.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The interdisciplinary focus of the course qualifies the ecotrophologists particularly to work at the interfaces of different service and production areas.
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Possible fields of activity are nutrition education and nutritional advice in schools, companies and clinics, development and marketing of new products in the food industry, planning and organization of catering tasks in all forms of canteen kitchens or large events (e.g. in hospitals, canteens or in catering), monitoring and control of food safety in industrial production or in the catering sector.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hamburg), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €338 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | For a degree in ecotrophology, interest in scientific topics is just as important as a strong willingness to deal with social science, legal, business and technical issues. |
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| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
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 15.01uni-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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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.01.2027 (93 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.