Course Structure
This curriculum applies to all students who start their studies in the winter semester 2024/25 or later. The curriculum for students who started their studies before the winter semester 2024/25 can be found here.
The curriculum serves as an overview of the various modules that you have to take in the course of the study programme. The sequence of the modules is a recommendation and the semester offer may deviate from it.
The Master's programme "Food Quality and Safety" (M.Sc.) comprises modules with a total of 120 ECTS credits*. It offers a broad range of modules, which are structured into the following module areas and courses:
- A. Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry of Food - 25 ECTSHide
- B. Data Science/ Information Technology/ Statistics - 5 ECTSHide
- C. Law and Management - 25 ECTSHide
- D. Multidisciplinary Training - 8 ECTSHide
- E. Specialisation and Skills (Supplementary Module Area) - 15 ECTSHide
- Mandatory 9-week Internship - 12 ECTSHide
- Master Thesis - 30 ECTSHide
We attach great importance to practical training for our students. For this reason, all natural science modules include a comprehensive practical laboratory course. Under qualified supervision, our students learn modern laboratory techniques and analytical methods in laboratories specially equipped for teaching which they can then apply to their own exciting experiments.
* ECTS credits: The awarding of credit points according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) facilitates the international comparability of coursewerk completed at European higher education institutions.