Food Technology

Food technology is an innovative, exciting, and highly interdisciplinary field of study; meeting the challenges related to global market requirements, changing consumer demands, sustainability, social responsibility, and competitiveness requires knowledge in a wide range of areas.

Food Technology at DTU is thus an interdisciplinary study programme involving different departments and disciplines, including microbiology, biochemistry, physics, chemical engineering, and engineering.

Study programme focus

The Food Technology programme aims to provide you with profound analytical, design, and development skills in terms of technologies and processes related to modern production of healthy, safe food.

The programme covers a wide range of courses in technical fields of activity, food science, management, and communication. In addition, the food industry and other external stakeholders also play an active role on the programme, allowing you to work with highly relevant, real-life issues and projects.

Focus areas

Your choice of courses in your individual study plan offers a high degree of flexibility. Therefore, you have every opportunity to design your own study programme by choosing from the wide range of courses. Experience shows, however, that students tend to choose specialization courses with focus on either food production or food safety.

You also have the opportunity to choose one of the two special programmes—Brewer (in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen and the Scandinavian School of Brewing) or AQFood (in collaboration with four other Nordic universities).

Read more about the focus areas for Food Technology

Read more about the structure of the MSc programmes at DTU.

Career

The Food Technology programme qualifies you for employment in food companies and related industries involved in food production, quality, and safety as well as equipment manufacturing—in Denmark and internationally. You may also have the opportunity to engage in public or private research, development, and consultancy in the field of food.

Read more about your future career under the ‘Career’ tab.

Academic requirements for this programme

National students

Prerequisites, Bachelors of Science in Engineering from DTU

Students from the following BSc Eng Programmes at DTU are entitled to admission to the MSc Eng programme in Food Technology

• Biotechnology
• Chemistry and Technology
• General Engineering with the specialiazation “Living Systems”
• Environmental Engineering
• Human Life Science Engineering
• Quantitative Biology and Disease Modelling

In order to benefit the most from the BSc. Eng. education it is recommended that students use their freedom of choice to build up the relevant competencies in regard to the master degree. It is therefore recommended that the following courses or similar are part of the bachelor degree:

Other Bachelors of Science in Engineering with a relevant education may be admitted. The competencies and qualifications of the applicants will be considered individually.

Prerequisites, Bachelor of Engineering from DTU

Students from the following B Eng Programmes at DTU are entitled to admission to the MSc Eng programme in

• Chemical and Bio Engineering
• Food Safety and Quality

Other Bachelors of  Engineering with a relevant education may be admitted. The competencies and qualifications of the applicants will be considered individually.

Prerequisites, Bachelors of Natural Science from other Danish universities

Students from the following Bachelor of Natural Science programmes are entitled to admission to the MSc Eng programme in Food Technology:

• Food and Nutrition with the specialization in Quality and Technology (offered by KU and DTU)

Students from the following Bachelor of Natural Science programmes have access to admission to the MSc Eng programme in Food Technology

• Engineering in Biotechnology from Aarhus University *
• Chemistry and Biotechnology from Aalborg University *

* Students from these programmes are recommended to sign up for the following course during the first semester:

Other Bachelors of Science with a relevant education may be admitted. The competencies and qualifications of the applicants will be considered individually.

Prerequisites, Bachelors of Enerneering from other Danish universities

Other Bachelors of  Engineering with a relevant education may be admitted. The competencies and qualifications of the applicants will be considered individually.

International students

In order to be admitted with a Bachelor degree or equivalent taken at a non-Danish university, your study must have been at a level comparable to that of a Danish BSc Eng degree and of sufficient relevance to Food Technology, like

• BSc Eng in Food Science and Technology,
• BSc Eng in Human Life Science Engineering
• BSc Eng in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology

All applicants with a Bachelor degree or equivalent taken at a non-Danish university are individually assessed accordingly.

General admission requirements

Only applicants holding either a relevant Bachelor of Science in Engineering, a Bachelor in Engineering or a Bachelor of Natural Science degree can be admitted to a Master of Science in Engineering programme. The bachelor degree must be less than 10 years old.

The individual MSc Eng programme states in detail which bachelor programmes qualify and whether applicants have to complete supplementary educational activities.

Requirements for supplementary educational activities can equate to up to 30 ECTS credits and are specified in the form of a list of courses under the individual MSc Eng programmes.

The specific requirements must be met before graduating from the bachelor programme or in connection with conditional admission to a particular MSc Eng programme. The courses must be passed prior to the commencement of studies within one year from the conditional admission.

Supplementary educational activities in connection with conditional admission to an MSc Eng programme do not form part of the MSc Eng programme, and partial tuition fees are charged. If the supplementary courses have not been passed within the deadlines specified, the conditional admission to the programme is withdrawn.

The Master of Science in Engineering programmes are offered in English. Therefore applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English (B-level, IELTS, TOEFL- or Pearson test).

DTU offers Honours Programme as part of all MSc  Eng. programmes. The admission requirements are described at http://www.dtu.dk/english/education/msc/honours-programmes