About the course
BSc Nutrition and Health prepares you to address some of today’s most urgent global health challenges through the science of nutrition. Accredited by the Association for Nutrition (AfN), the course equips you with the knowledge, practical skills and professional credibility to promote health and help prevent disease at individual and community level.
You will explore the scientific links between nutrition, disease, treatment and prevention, while developing expertise in human nutrition, public health, laboratory practice and research. AfN accreditation means you can apply to join the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists (UKVRN) as a Registered Associate Nutritionist without additional assessments, supporting your professional progression.
What you’ll study
You will examine how diet influences health, growth and development across the lifespan, and how nutrition can be used to address inequalities and improve public health.
Modules may include:
• Food and Nutrition
• Fundamentals of Life Sciences
• Psychology for Health
• Professional Skills for Success
Throughout the degree, you will develop skills in research design, data analysis, laboratory techniques, food evaluation and evidence based practice.
How you’ll learn
You will learn through a combination of lectures, practical laboratory sessions, discussions, presentations and collaborative projects.
Teaching is delivered by experienced professionals and active researchers in nutrition and health, helping you connect theory to real world application.
How you’ll be assessed
Assessment methods reflect professional practice and include online tests, written exams, laboratory reports, presentations, essays, portfolios, practical tasks and research projects.
These varied assessments ensure you graduate with both strong scientific knowledge and applied professional skills.
Future opportunities
A BSc Nutrition and Health from Roehampton opens pathways into careers such as:
• Clinical nutrition and dietetics
• Sports and exercise nutrition
• Public health and community nutrition
• Food safety and policy
• Research and consultancy
Many graduates work within the NHS, pharmaceutical sector, weight management services, education and advocacy. The degree also provides progression routes into postgraduate study, including MSc Clinical Nutrition or MSc Public Health.
Facilities
Based at Whitelands College next to Richmond Park, you will have access to specialist food laboratories, clinical study suites and advanced nutrition and biochemical analysis facilities, supporting hands-on learning and research.
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
University of Roehampton has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | with a minimum of 5.5 in each band |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 80 | with the following minimum scores: Reading: 18 Writing: 17 Listening: 17 Speaking: 20 |
| PTE Academic | 59 | with no less than 59 in any band |
| Cambridge English Advanced | C | grade C in tests prior to 2015 with no less than 'weak' in any band |
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/student-support/non-academic-and-academic-support/financial-support-and-guidance
If you are on a multi-year course, e.g. an undergraduate degree, then you should budget for a likely increase of between three and five percent for each year of study with us on the same degree.
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