FOOD SAFETY
Ph.D. Program for Bachelor degree holders in Food Engineering is a 240 ECTS credit program with a duration of 4 academic years and with 8 30-ECTS semesters. The regular program consists of 14 courses of 42 local credits and a thesis. Both the coursework and the thesis have 120 ECTS credits each. The institute, upon a request by the program director, may require the prospective student to enroll additional courses if his/her background is not considered to be sufficient to follow the program requirements. The program offers graduate study leading to master degrees for those who have been graduated from other close engineering disciplines, such as chemical engineering, environmental and agriculture engineering, and interdisciplinary programmes such as biotechnology and bioengineering, material engineering etc. Graduate students receive in-depth training in the core disciplines of food chemistry, food microbiology, food engineering and processing.