Food Science

HAW Hamburg has been running this Master’s degree course in Food Science, with its innovative, real-world-centred and well-balanced curriculum, for over 10 years. We work with numerous Hamburg-based businesses, research institutes and public authorities to ensure our students get hands-on experience and a correspondingly good start in exciting and varied food-sector careers.

This Master’s degree course is aimed at graduates in nutrition, dietetics, process engineering and related subjects who want to build on their first degrees and attain advanced competencies in specific areas in preparation for a career in academic or applied research or a specialist or management role.

This degree course, four semesters in duration, is intended to build consecutively on a previous (Bachelor’s or equivalent) degree and allow students to expand their research and methodological skills repertoire.

The first three semesters are concerned with communicating foundational knowledge around the foodstuffs process chain, from the raw materials to the finished, packaged food product, while having regard to technical, economic, environmental, legal and physiological aspects of the issue. The fourth semester is spent writing a Master thesis.

Essential:

• A first Bachelor’s degree in nutrition/dietetics or process engineering, with a minimum grade of ‘good’ (2.5) in the German system
• OR a first degree in a subject related/relevant to this Master’s degree course (see ‘The right course for you?’ above) worth at least 180 credit points and with a minimum grade of ‘good’ (2.5) in the German system (or equivalent grade)
• Diploma Supplement/Transcript of Records
• International applicants are required to demonstrate proficiency in the German language at level B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) or above via a recognised language test such as TestDaF, DSH or ZOP (Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung)
• International applicants who gained their first degree outside the EU are additionally required to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE; see www.gre.org)
• You must have completed practical experience with a duration of at least 16 uninterrupted weeks within or subsequent to an undergraduate degree, or, alternatively, equivalent practical experience directly related or relevant to the degree courses named in the first bullet point above.

Further required documents:

• CV
• Letter of motivation (only required for applicants who did not complete their first degrees at HAW Hamburg)

Further documents you may submit to enhance your application:

• Proof of outstanding achievements in the context of relevant practical experience

International applicants

If you completed your schooling/first degree outside Germany and want to study here for a Master’s degree, you will need to send your qualification certificates to the organisation uni-assist so it can establish their validity and comparability with the German system. More details about HAW Hamburg’s application criteria are available here: www.haw-hamburg.de/international/internationale-studierende/master-bewerber/bewerbungsvoraussetzungen.html