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Career & Academic Progression Opportunities

Career Opportunities

In this direction, the graduates of the Food Quality Control and Analysis Program will be trained in the food industry and will respond to the needs as intermediate staff to assist food controllers. Students who graduate as technicians have the chance to be employed in both the private sector and public institutions.
 
Graduates who successfully complete the program; In order to ensure food safety and quality of public and private institutions and organizations, they can carry out food inspection and control services by observing minimum technical and hygienic conditions in the production, processing and distribution stages, including the primary production stage of substances and materials in contact with food. In addition, they may have the opportunity to work in laboratories related to microbiological analysis of foods in institutions and organizations in the public and private sector. For this purpose, they can work in the general directorate of food control laboratories affiliated to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, in public institutions such as the Hygiene Institute, Tariş, Municipalities, Provincial Health Directorates, and in the management, production and laboratory areas of the private sector food industry, they can provide consultancy and they can also open their own private workplaces.

Occupational Profiles

Food Quality Control and Analysis Technicians who have successfully completed this program; In the laboratories of the Faculties of Food Engineering of the universities, in the Food Hygiene and Technology research-application laboratories of the Faculties of Veterinary Sciences, in the laboratories of the nutrition and dietetics department of the Faculties of Health Sciences, in the research-application laboratories of the Agricultural Biotechnology Department of the Faculties of Agriculture, in the biology and chemistry departments of the Faculty of Science and Letters, in the laboratories of vocational schools, etc. units, food control general directorate laboratories affiliated to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, provincial and district organizations of agricultural enterprises, TUBITAK, special laboratories related to food control, private food enterprises, customs, Meat and Fish Institutions and food-related enterprises.

Horizontal Transition

They can transfer to associate degree programs that accept students with TYT base points.

Vertical Transmission

According to the 2022 DGS guideline, undergraduate programs where students who graduate from this program can transfer with the Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS); Nutrition and Dietetics, Plant Protection, Plant Production and Technologies, Food Engineering, Food Technology, Chemistry, Agricultural Genetic Engineering, Agricultural Biotechnology