Allahabad University to come up with integrated food and nutrition course, check details

"The Board of Studies (BoS) concerned and the academic council of the central varsity have already given their approval to the course to be called Integrated BSc-MSc Food and Nutrition," the varsity said.

Allahabad University to come up with integrated food and nutrition course, check details

Allahabad University has announced that it will be launching a new five-year integrated course in food and nutrition in the next academic session. The course will be run by the department of family and community sciences (formerly home science) of the varsity. 

"The Board of Studies (BoS) concerned and the academic council of the central varsity have already given their approval to the course to be called Integrated BSc-MSc Food and Nutrition," the varsity said.

It must be noted that the course is exclusively for women and the department, initially, will offer admission to 20 candidates. As per the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, there will be multiple exit points for the students. On the basis of the year of the exit, the students will be awarded either certificate, diploma or degree.

Head of the department Neetu Mishra said: “There will be multiple entry and exit points. Candidates will be awarded certificates in food and nutrition if they drop out after the first year, diploma after the second year, bachelor’s degree after the third year, bachelor’s (with honours) after the fourth year and master’s after five years.”

Candidates who have completed the BSc in home science or nutrition under the old education system can get direct admission to the fourth year.

She further added that the students will be taught about the benefits of healthy food, food microbiology, food processing, human development, therapeutic food counselling, etc.