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About this degree
This two-year MSc in Dietetics will set you up with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to apply for full registration as a dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
The programme's defining approach is to make coherent connections between research and practice to strengthen your future role, influence, and impact as a dietician.
You will have the opportunity to apply academic knowledge, develop your clinical skills, and become a highly reflective practitioner, working within UCL's world-leading centres of excellence. Your practice will be underpinned by the latest research to maintain your credibility and profile. Independent critical thought and continuing professional development will also be encouraged.
A unique point of the programme is the important links between UCL and our partners. You will be exposed to state-of-the-art nutritional and dietetic research, working on projects from the hospital bedside to national public health policy making.
The programme has also been specifically developed to meet industry benchmarks to help you stay relevant in a fast-evolving dietetics landscape. You will graduate with the abilities and confidence to be highly responsive to changes in healthcare provision and be brilliantly equipped to build a career in this exciting field.
Who this course is for
This MSc is for graduates who want to study dietetic science with the aim of working as a registered dietitian or going onto a research career in this fast-evolving area of medical science. Students will gain the skills to undertake first-class research and be able to examine a wide range of environments in which nutrition and dietetics can be applied.
What this course will give you
This programme offers you the following benefits and opportunities.
- The chance to study dietetics in one of the top ten universities in the world, with a global reputation for teaching informed by cutting-edge research.
- Exposure to world-leading nutritional and dietetic research at UCL and our partner hospitals. UCL has a long and prestigious history in medical and nutrition research and coordinates many major studies in the UK and globally.
- Opportunities to translate complex scientific evidence about food, health, disease, and human behaviour, to assess, diagnose and treat nutrition-related problems in individuals and improve the health of populations.
- Opportunities to engage in both academic and practice placement learning.
- The chance to tap into UCL’s close links with NHS partners, major London hospitals, public health organisations and non-academic partners. This will equip you to work in a variety of settings and to contribute to the development and promotion of the profession throughout your career.
- Opportunities to develop your clinical skills alongside research, leadership and project management expertise and be eligible to apply to the Health and Care Professions Council for registration as a dietitian.
- This is specifically developed to meet healthcare and industry benchmarks and reports to ensure graduates remain relevant in an evolving dietetics landscape. These include:
- The Health and Care Professions Council Standards of Education and Training
- The British Dietetic Association Curriculum Framework for the Pre-Registration Education and Training of Dietitians (BDA, 2020)
- The Standards of Proficiency - Dietitians and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Benchmark Statements for Health Care Programmes - Dietetics
- The BDA Future Dietitian 2025 report.