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.
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.
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.
Lateral transfers to the Faculty of Health Sciences are carried out under the provisions of the relevant directive of Istanbul Gelişim University. Students can transfer within and outside the institution, including departments of the Faculty of Health Sciences.