Build your foundation knowledge in nutrition science while understanding how business operates and guides Australia's $20 billion food industry. With a Bachelor of Nutrition Science/Bachelor of Commerce, you'll graduate with highly transferable skills that allow you to understand and navigate the relationship between nutrition and business.

Why not combine your passion for food and nutrition with the business skills that will prepare you for a career in the food industry?

Create unique career paths with a combined degree in nutrition sciences and the highly transferable skills of a business degree. Behind every industry is a business operation, and with this degree you’ll learn both the implications of nutrition on our population and the business skills that can be applied to the field.

While studying nutrition sciences, you will build an understanding of how nutrition affects all aspects of our lives from our overall health, to disease and ageing. You will graduate with the advanced knowledge to provide evidence-based nutrition advice throughout community settings.

Your commerce degree will arm you with the versatile skills that ensure you graduate ready to confidently advise in roles across business and government. By choosing to complete a business major, you will gain insight into how a specialised area of commerce affects the nutrition industry. The majors available in the Commerce portion of this degree include:

• accounting
• economics
• finance
• human resource management
• management
• management information systems

The core units within this combined degree prepare you for a range of careers, including:

• business analytics
• disease prevention
• economics
• finance
• food habits
• food sustainability
• food science
• lifespan nutrition
• management
• marketing
• nutritional physiology
• sustainable food systems.

Both the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Deakin Business School house state-of-the-art facilities to expose you to industry standard environments while you study. Put theories to the test in our food sensory labs and develop your skills in business analytics at the IBM Centre of Excellence.

Broaden your cultural understanding of nutrition and commerce by taking your studies overseas. Learn about strategic management in South Korea or head to the US to visit some of the world’s biggest food organisations. You will gain invaluable experience that will ensure that you can take your degree into careers within Australia and internationally.

This combined course will give you a competitive edge when it comes to employment. You will not only have the understanding of how nutrition affects our population, but the business skills to critically analyse its relationship to commerce. Find yourself in roles including:

• brand/product management
• consumer education
• consumer research
• food composition
• food policy
• food regulation
• management
• marketing and media
• quality assurance
• wholesale and retail.