Food Quality and Safety (M.Sc.)

How can we provide people with sufficient quantities of healthy food? Which factors hinder healthy lifestyles and diets? – Have these questions got you thinking? Then our international master‘s programme „M.Sc. Food Quality and Safety“ is exactly the right choice for you.

• Interdisciplinary M.Sc. focused on life science complemented by an equal share of legal and economic courses
• Modern equipped seminar rooms and laboratories on a new campus in Kulmbach
• Small classes and close student-professor connections
• Language of instruction: all classes taught English, international student community
• Duration: 2 years of full-time study
• Academic requirements: Bachelor degree in Biology or Biochemistry, or a comparable degree in the field of Life Sciences, and a language certificate ENGLISH level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). A language certificate GERMAN level A1 (CEFR) can be obtained during the first year of studies.
• Application: online via the application portal CAMPUSonline. Applicants from outside the EU who have obtained their degree abroad have to upload the application documents also via uni-assist and undergo a fee-based special procedure.
• No tuition fees

Why come to us?

• Internationality: The University of Bayreuth has long-standing partnerships with international universities and offers 12,000 students from all over the world the ideal place to launch their career. Our university hosts students, instructors and researchers from more than 110 different countries.
• Location: The study programme takes place at the Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health in Kulmbach (Bavaria). Our faculty will complement and strengthen the already existing food cluster at this location, consisting of recognized research institutes, leading authorities and companies.
• Vision: The faculty perspective is innovative in Germany, trying to find answers to global challenges in the field of life sciences through interdisciplinary teaching and research. Thus, the scientific analysis of the interrelationship between nutrition, movement and health is combined with relevant economic, legal, sociological and behavioural questions.

  

 Application deadline

• 15 June 2026 (for winter semester)

For more information, see www.foodquality.uni-bayreuth.de