New and innovative: the Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health

The Faculty of Life Sciences offers interdisciplinary and internationally oriented degree programmes in nutrition, health and quality of life. If you are interested in topics such as healthy eating or the prevention of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, you will find a wide range of study options here.

Our degree programmes:

• Lebensmittel- und Gesundheitswissenschaften (B.Sc.)
• Food Quality and Safety (M.Sc.)
• Food System Sciences (M.Sc.)
• Global Food, Nutrition and Health (M.Sc.)

Master programmes:
For winter semester 2027/28, applications can be submitted between March 1 and June 15, 2027. We encourage prospective students to apply early (especially if they need a visa).

Bachelor programme:
Enrolment for the winter semester 2027/28 is open from April 15, 2027.

Please note: Applicants from outside the EU who have obtained their degree abroad have to first upload the application documents via uni-assist (possible at any time of the year) and undergo a fee-based special procedure.

Why study at the Kulmbach campus? Here are 10 good reasons. 

Do you have questions about our degree programmes or the campus in Kulmbach? Meet the programme moderators live at our Information events!

You can find all the answers to your questions about applying and studying here.

The special publication ERNÄHRUNG – Degree Programs + Locations, published by Ernährungsumschau, includes a comprehensive overview of degree programs (in German only). 
Food, nutrition, and health are central issues of our time. The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Bayreuth brings these fields together in a unique, interdisciplinary approach. (Excerpt from the Ernährungsumschau)

The concept of the youngest faculty at the University of Bayreuth follows a holistic approach. In accordance with the tradition of the University of Bayreuth, it deals with interdisciplinary research and teaching on the great challenges of our time:

• What are the causal relationships between risk of disease and life style and/or nutrition?

• Which individual, social, cultural, and/or socio-economic factors hinder healthy lifestyles and diets?

• How can providing people with sufficient quantities of healthy food be improved?

The Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health aims to find answers to these questions and challenges through its interdisciplinary approach, and to develop innovative solutions. To this end, the natural science perspective, which focuses on current, far-reaching methodological revolutions in the life sciences, is combined with modern concepts from the economic, legal, social, and behavioural sciences. It interlinks with the special competencies offered by the nutrition cluster in Kulmbach with a large number of official institutions and a wide range of food-producing industries.