Scope and career opportunities after BSC Nutrition & Dietetics

Due to the increased amount of awareness of fitness and health in today’s world, more and more people are becoming curious about fitness and leading a healthy lifestyle. This makes the future of a Dietitian brighter in the coming days. Candidates who have pursued Dietetics and Nutrition can work in the following sectors/industries.

• Hospitals – Clinical dietitians offer medical nutrition therapy to patients who are admitted to hospitals. They analyse and evaluate the result of implementing nutrition programmes for a patient’s dietary needs.

• Community dieticians – These dieticians provide health guidance to a specific part of a community. Candidates who become community dieticians work closely with community health clinics, gyms, or home health agencies.
• Corporate – Corporate dietitians usually work in the food industry, marketing and advertising. Such dieticians take control of food surveys, provide food guidance for any publication, and write reports which include the nutritional value of dishes, dietary fibre, vitamin supplements, etc.
• Sports – Such professionals take care of the food and water intake of the country’s athletes. It also covers coming up with appropriate nutritional guidance which covers organic substance intake for an athlete.

• Research: Research is another domain that has been strengthened owing to Dietetics and Nutrition. Together Healthcare researchers, Dieticians and Nutritionists have contributed a lot to human health, food, Nutrition and well-being.

• Government Domains: Individuals with a degree in Dietetics and Nutrition can also contribute to the government domains and they have been hired in the same as well. Many Dietetics and Nutrition graduates have been hired in government hospitals to work and Research food/diet/nutrition-oriented subjects and diagnose health/diet/lifestyle-related problems. They are also hired by legal organisations like FSSAI which regenerates Food Licensing.

• Academics – Management Studies: The ongoing demand for a perfect lifestyle and smooth health has led people to engage themselves in acknowledging the insights into Dietetics and Nutrition. Individuals with a degree in the same can move ahead by enrolling themselves and carriers of their subject and can disseminate their information by working as teaching professionals, lecturers and professors.