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M.Sc. (Nutrition and Dietetics)

M.Sc. (Nutrition and Dietetics) is a comprehensive, two-year, full-time program with a 14-year legacy of producing professionals in the field of nutrition and dietetics. As one of the top M.Sc. (Nutrition and Dietetics) colleges, we offer specializations tailored to complement your career goals.

Specializations:

Nutrition and Population Health

Personalized Nutrition

Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics

Food Safety and Quality Management

Our M.Sc. (Nutrition and Dietetics) programme is designed to provide in-depth knowledge and research-based education, preparing students for careers in clinical nutrition, food safety, and dietetics.

The programme equips students with the skills required to solve pressing industry challenges, including public health nutrition, policy advocacy, and non-communicable disease control through diet and nutrition.

Objective

To nurture, cultivate, and promote nutritionists, dietitians and food safety specialists and to create an ecosystem for innovation that enables the development of strategies of social relevance

Eligibility Criteria

Graduate in Life Sciences / Home Sciences / Health Sciences and any other Biological sciences from any recognized University/ Institution of National Importance with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent grade (45% marks or equivalent grade for Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribes)

Selection Procedure

Step 01

Online Registration

Step 02

Screening for Eligibility Graduate

Step 03

Personal Interaction with shortlisted candidates

Step 04

Declaration of merit list

Opportunities

Hospitals and Clinics

NGOs and MNCs

Genetic Counselling Centres

Health & Wellness Industry

Food & Beverage Industries

Academic & Research

National & International Org. (Food, Nutrition & Dietetics)

Food Quality Assurance Laboratories

Nutraceutical companies

Entrepreneurial Ventures

About M.Sc. (Nutrition & Dietetics) @ SSCANS

"The Symbiosis School of Culinary Arts and Nutritional Sciences offers an M.Sc. (Nutrition and Dietetics), a two-year full-time programme, and has been recognized as one of the best institutes in India for the last fourteen years. The programme provides innovative career-oriented specializations such as Nutrition and Population Health, Personalized Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics and Food Safety & Quality Management.

If you're looking for food and nutrition colleges that provide a Symbiosis dietician course with strong industry connections, research opportunities, and career-focused training, SSCANS is your ideal choice.

These specializations provide focused and tailored courses in specific areas to equip and skill the students in the respective domains through academic and research-based education to enhance their career prospects. Further, the Masters in Nutrition and Dietetics programme in India offers multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary courses designed to meet industry standards and professional skills."

Why SSCANS?

Symbiosis School of Culinary Arts and Nutritional Sciences (SSCANS) has created unique, innovative, career-oriented programmes to raise a cadre of industry-ready food and nutrition professionals.
A conducive ecosystem that supports teaching-learning and nurtures research with a community-hospital interface at Symbiosis Arogya Dham.
Inter-intra and trans-disciplinary skills and global competencies to meet the growing demands of the food and nutrition industries and excellent entrepreneurship ventures.
SSCANS has well-qualified experts and experienced faculty to stimulate the need to learn and absorb information in young minds.
State-of-the-art infrastructure and research facilities for a conducive learning environment.

As one of the top colleges offering specially designed curriculum in Nutrition and Dietetics, SSCANS provides hands-on training through internships in leading hospitals, food industries, NGOs, and genetic labs, making students industry-ready.
Our highly qualified faculty offers laboratory training, research opportunities with ICMR & NAFARI, and guidance for those looking to pursue a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Dietetics.
Exhaustive training to help students understand and solve pertinent issues in food safety, quality management aspects in the food industries, clinical nutrition and dietetics, public health nutrition challenges, policy advocacies, and the management of non-communicable diseases through the application of principles of nutrigenomics across diverse societal landscapes.

Key Highlights

Opportunities to pursue Ph.D. programme

Internship opportunities at leading Hospitals, Food industries, NGOs and Genetic Labs

Laboratory Trainings

Research and Training activities with ICMR & NAFARI

Research Publications

Excellent industry qualified faculty members to teach specialised courses

Admission Schedule - Important Dates

Details	Date
Commencement of Registration	Saturday, 15th February 2025
Closure of Registration	Sunday, 20th July 2025
Admit Card Generation	At Institute level before the 3 days before PIWAT
Entrance Date	No Written Exam
Result Declaration	Within 10 days after conduct of personal interaction
Shortlist Declaration	Same as result declaration
PIWAT/GEPIWAT/PRPI Dates	Saturday, 15th March, 2025 Saturday, 12th April, 2025 Saturday, 17th May, 2025 Saturday, 31st May, 2025 Saturday, 7th June, 2025 Saturday, 14th June, 2025 Saturday, 21st June, 2025 Saturday, 28th June, 2025
Merit List Date	Same as result declaration
Programme Commencement	Monday, 7th July 2025

Note: *These are tentative dates, subject to change. For regular updates, please log once.