The food industry is the leading industrial sector of our country, with an increase in invoicing and employment every year. At the UAB you will receive the most technological and professional training possible
Interested in studying a bachelor's degree with a bright professional future? Are you concerned about finding employment when you complete your studies? The bachelor's degree in Food Science and Technology will prepare you professionally to work in the food industry, the leading industrial sector in our country. It is one of the degrees with the highest index of employment.
At the UAB you will find industrial facilities that will help you discover and work with real equipment used in the food industry. Lecturers have years of scientific and industrial experience and work closely with companies from a variety of food sectors, with the aim of offering students up-to-date quality teaching.
You will be able to take part in work placements offered by a large array of food companies from all sectors, both in Catalonia and in other countries thanks to the UAB's exchange programmes.
Career options
These studies lead to employment in the following areas:
- production of raw materials,
- production of safe and nutritious foods and related substances,
- quality management,
- development of new products and processes,
- legal advice for producers and society in general.
Testimonials
What I like most about being a Food Technologist is the versatility of this degree and the great amount of internationalisation found in the field.
Arnau Vilas
Mobility programmes
Erasmus study The Erasmus program provides students enrolled in European universities academic stay in another European university (three months to a full academic year ) or an internship in a company , and the subsequent recognition of their studies abroad. Currently offered 18 places that are distributed in a total of nine agreements with universities in France, Portugal, Finland , the Netherlands and Germany and Austria
Erasmus placement This method allows the students stays in business practices or institutions in other European countries.
SICUE - Seneca SICUE exchange program aims to facilitate student exchanges in Spain. Currently offered a total of 9 seats to go to Granada, Leon, Murcia , Zaragoza and Valencia.
Program UAB The program provides UAB students enrolled in our university academic stay a course at outside Europe and the subsequent recognition of their studies abroad. Currently we offered a place in Brazil and the U.S.
The course "Practicum" is included at the 4th year of the Food Science and Technology degree. This course has an only subject with the same name, which is compulsory and consists of 12 ECTS (equivalent to 300 h). The Practicum is an activity that students perform in a private or public entity, national or international, to complement their university education and bring them closer to the professional field where they will practise their activity. Therefore, it must allow the students:
to know the methodology of work appropriate to the professional reality;
to develop technical, methodological, personal and participatory skills;
to obtain experience that facilitates the incorporation into the labour market;
to strengthen the values of innovation, creativity and empreneurship.