Overview

Nutrition plays a powerful role in health and wellbeing. As Australia’s health sector continues to grow, there’s growing demand for nutrition professionals who understand the foundations and underlying science of nutrition, and the links to illnesses related to aging and modern lifestyle choices.

If you're passionate about the power of food and nutrition, Bachelor of Food and Nutrition from La Trobe University gives you the foundations to pursue your dream career supporting the health of individuals and communities.

Carefully designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of food and nutrition science, you'll explore biosciences and the relationship between food, disease and society, as well as the importance of nutritional requirements.

You'll get hands-on experience in commercial kitchens and modern science labs, and you'll have the opportunity to explore an area you're passionate about, including sports nutrition, food science and gastronomy, and nutrigenomics.

Career outcomes

After graduation, you could work across a wide variety of sectors including population or public health, government bodies, community health, food industry (including food development, technology and analysis), research and media.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Human Biosciences

Human Physiology

Nutrition and Disease

Employability in Nutrition

Food and Societies Lifespan Nutrition

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-03-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-15 00:00:00 , National

More details

Internationals - The University assesses applications on a rolling basis which means you can apply for the next upcoming intake or available future intakes.

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

79

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PTE Academic

58

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus, Online

Campus Location

Melbourne, Australia

Disciplines

Nutrition & Dietetics Food Science View 26 other Bachelors in Food Science in Australia

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

79

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PTE Academic

58

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

CRICOS code: 113593H

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL.
6.5 IELTS (Academic) with no individual band less than 6.0.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

42400 AUD / year

≈ 42400 AUD / year
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

9537 AUD / year

≈ 9537 AUD / year

Additional Details

National students:

Commonwealth supported places (CSP): Available for this course

Living costs

Melbourne

Australia

1501 - 2659 AUD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Career outcomes

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

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Tuition Fees

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Domestic Applies to you

Additional Details

Living costs

Melbourne

Funding

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