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Aim of the Program

The aim of the department is to prepare dieticians who possess those qualities of competences and skills requisite to a health professional. The department also aims to train people who demonstrate creativity and innovation in research with the help of technology that contributes to the development and application of knowledge in nutrition, dietetics, food service management and community nutrition. 

 

Target of the Program

  1. To train nutrition and diet specialists who produce nutritional information at national and international level and use this knowledge in the development of nutrition and dietetics.
  2. To train nutrition and diet specialists who contribute to the country in the fields of protection of human health and improvement of diseases in line with scientific principles based on evidence on nutrition and foods.
  3. To develop nutrition policies, to train nutrition and diet specialists that enable public and private sector organizations to operate at world standards.
  4. To train qualified "dietitians" with high-level professional equipment.

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.

 

Future of the Department

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Programmes allowing Horizontal Transfer

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.

 

 

Programmes allowing Vertical Transfer

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.