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Purpose of Department

The aim of the department is to educate qualified dietitians who possess advanced professional competence and ethical values, in accordance with nationally and internationally recognized professional standards; who contribute to the protection, improvement, and promotion of individual and public health throughout the lifespan, as well as to the enhancement of quality of life, by ensuring adequate and balanced nutrition at both individual and community levels; who apply evidence-based scientific principles related to nutrition and foods in the fields of health promotion and disease prevention and management; and who are capable of contributing to the development of nutrition policies and performing at world-class standards in both the public and private sectors.


Target of Department
  1. To train nutrition and diet specialists who produce nutritional information at national and international level and use this knowledge in the development of nutrition and dietetics.
  2. To train nutrition and diet specialists who contribute to the country in the fields of protection of human health and improvement of diseases in line with scientific principles based on evidence on nutrition and foods.
  3. To develop nutrition policies, to train nutrition and diet specialists that enable public and private sector organizations to operate at world standards.
  4. To train qualified "dietitians" with high-level professional skills.

Career Opportunities

A dietician is a person who has received at least four years of higher education in the field of Nutrition and Dietetics and received the title of Dietician with the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dieticians can get the titles of Specialist Dietitian and Doctor Dietician by completing their master's and doctoral programs after their undergraduate education.

 

Departments Allowing Horizontal Transfer

Horizontal transfers to the Faculty of Health Sciences are carried out in accordance with the provisions of the "Istanbul Gelişim University Directive on Exemption-Adaptation Procedures and Horizontal Transfer Principles." Students can transfer horizontally within the institution and externally across all departments of the Faculty of Health Sciences.

 

 


Departments Allowing Vertical Transfer

In accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the Continuation of Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs to Undergraduate Education, published in the Official Gazette dated 19/2/2002 and numbered 24676, and the quotas determined by the IGU Senate, students who have graduated or will graduate from an associate degree program in the fields of food, health, and nutrition may apply to the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics based on their preferences and the results of the central Vertical Transfer Examination (DGS) conducted by ÖSYM.