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ISTANBUL GELİŞİM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM

NUTRITION AND DIETETICS (ENGLISH)

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Career & Academic Progression Opportunities

Career Opportunities

A dietician is a person who has received at least four years of higher education in the field of Nutrition and Dietetics and received the title of Dietician with the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dieticians can get the titles of Specialist Dietitian and Doctor Dietician by completing their master's and doctoral programs after their unde rgraduate education.

Occupational Profiles

A dietitian is a health professional who has successfully completed a 4-year education program in the Nutrition and Dietetics Department of a Higher Education Institution and received a "Nutrition and Dietetics Undergraduate Diploma" and is entitled to practice this profession. ,
 
Working Areas of Dietitians:
  • Treatment institutions (private and public hospitals, polyclinics, health centers, dialysis units, etc.)
  • Institutional nutrition systems (food factories, hotel food and beverage departments, all private and public institutions where mass nutrition is provided, etc.)
  • Institutions that provide public health services (Mother-child health centers, health centers, child and elderly nursing homes, sports schools, etc.)
  • Food industry
  • Research institutions
  • Educational institutions

Horizontal Transition

Horizontal transfers to the Faculty of Health Sciences are carried out in accordance with the provisions of the "Istanbul Gelişim University Directive on Exemption-Adaptation Procedures and Horizontal Transfer Principles." Students can transfer horizontally within the institution and externally across all departments of the Faculty of Health Sciences.

 

Vertical Transmission

In accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the Continuation of Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs to Undergraduate Education, published in the Official Gazette dated 19/2/2002 and numbered 24676, and the quotas determined by the IGU Senate, students who have graduated or will graduate from an associate degree program in the fields of food, health, and nutrition may apply to the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics based on their preferences and the results of the central Vertical Transfer Examination (DGS) conducted by ÖSYM.