Career

While a Bachelor's degree is required for all positions, an undergraduate degree in nutrition prepares individuals for careers in the food industry. People in these careers use food, health and nutrition knowledge to help test products, assist consumers and manage food operations. Keep reading for an overview of dietitian and nutritionist, food scientist and food service manager careers.
Dietitians and Nutritionists
Nutritionists and dietitians work with clients on a consultant, community or clinical basis. These professionals plan healthy meals to satisfy nutritional requirements. By promoting healthy eating habits, nutritionists seek to avert and remedy illnesses associated with bad health. After examining an individual's health, a dietitian can recommend a diet designed to assist the patient to meet his or her health needs, such as losing weight or lowering blood pressure.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nutritionists and dietitians in 2015 had a median yearly salary of $57,910. Most of these professionals earned between $35,240 and $80,950 per year. The number of employed nutritionists and dietitians is expected to increase 16% between 2014 and 2024, which is much faster than average, per the BLS.
Food Scientists
Food scientists improve and create food products for universities, the government or food processing industries. Through the use of sciences like engineering, microbiology, chemistry, physics and biotechnology, food scientists discover and enhance methods for distributing, stowing, processing, packaging and preserving foods. Additional job duties can vary depending on one's job, but range from working in sanitation and safety to analyzing food contents, such as fats, sugars, proteins and vitamins, for nutritional information.
Food Service Managers
Restaurants and other food service establishments require food service managers to help run daily and long-term operations. Possessing a Bachelor's degree in nutrition allows food service managers to share accurate nutritional information to consumers about the products sold at their establishments. Food service managers usually perform all human resource and administrative duties at an individual location; these include monitoring, training and hiring employees, as well as stocking and ordering inventory.

A degree in drama won't automatically guarantee you a place in the limelight, but it has certainly helped some household names, including Dame Judi Dench, who graduated with first-class honors in the subject, and comedians Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Dawn French.
Even for those who don't make it on to the stage or big screen, a drama degree can open doors to equally rewarding roles, such as being an arts consultant, set designer or visual artist.
While drama school allows students to hone their acting technique, a drama degree takes a more theoretical approach, covering topics such as script-writing and theatre design, giving graduates a thorough grounding in the subject and widening their career options in a highly competitive field.
Working in such an unpredictable profession, often involving long periods of "rest" for actors, means the ability to network is essential, says Margaret Holbrough, a careers adviser at Graduate Prospects. "Careers involving performance as an actor or dancer are often based on short-term or freelance contracts, with the necessity of having to move from place to place to secure work. These may be in the TV, radio or film/video industries where contacts and networks are extremely valuable," she says.
Of 2009 graduates, nearly seven in 10 went into full-time employment; almost a quarter in the arts/design/culture sector. Many of those found work as actors with others taking up posts either as stage or studio managers, broadcasters or clothes designers.
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TV presenting is also an option, as demonstrated by Katy Ashworth, presenter of CBeebies and I Can Cook, and Abi Griffiths, who hosts sports programmes for ESPN.
"Other roles that operate within theatre or broadcasting that may equally appeal to drama graduates include theatre director, stage director or choreographer," says Holbrough.
"Working with community arts projects can also provide a vital starting point for graduates from which to develop their career further, either as a performer or to move into arts administration or management."
Graduates could turn their hand to therapies linked to the performing arts, such as drama therapy, music therapy or dance music psychotherapy. Each requires training in counselling.