Course details

Summary

Join a growing industry

The world needs healthy and safe food products and ingredients manufactured on a large scale. New food products pose challenging and exciting process design problems that you can help solve.

What is it Like?

Every day new food products and food ingredients are developed. The large-scale food manufacturing processes needed to bring these safely and sustainably to the world are designed and managed by food engineers. When you graduate from the Massey University food process engineering major, you will have the skills and knowledge to work in and to eventually lead this exciting global industry.

The world’s growing population needs healthy and safe foods and New Zealand is an important link in the global food supply chain to meet this demand.

International recognition

The United States-based Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) accredits Massey’s Bachelor of Food Technology with Honours and its majors. This is one of only a few programmes recognized outside the US. The Food Process Engineering major also has provisional accreditation by the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) as a professional engineering degree under the Washington Accord, an international agreement (equivalent to a four year engineering degree).

Global opportunities

As a graduate of Massey’s Bachelor of Food Technology with Honours (Food Process Engineering), you could go on to manage the development and implementation or installation of new processing lines and factories producing products meeting the customer requirements in a safe, economical and sustainable way. You could also turn your great ideas into new innovative solutions that can be developed into a business.

The possibilities are endless and your skills can be applied all over the world.

Accreditation

This major has Engineering NZ accreditation.

A flexible start

Available in Auckland for Year 1 and 2. Also Semester 1, Year 3. Subsequent semesters available in Palmerston North only.

Careers

Career options after completing the Food Product Technology major include:

• Food Process Engineer
• Process Engineer
• Design Engineer
• Production Supervisor

This course is also offered by the Institute of Food Science and Technology.

Entry criteria

Entry into the Bachelor of Food Technology with Honours will be guaranteed to applicants who gain University Entrance and the appropriate level of achievement at secondary school or via other preparatory programmes.

English Language Requirements:

• IELTS score of 6.0 (no band less than 5.5)
• TOEFL iBT score of 80 overall (min 19 in Writing)
• PTE Academic score of 50 Overall (min 42 in communicative skills)
• Cambridge English score of 170