Food science and nutrition programs at Illinois Tech are engineered to translate a passion for biology, chemistry, and human health into high-impact careers across the global food supply chain. This highly practical program spans comprehensive undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral pathways, offering you specialized training that is tailored to the food manufacturing, agricultural, and biotech industries. You will gain intensive, hands-on experience in modern food laboratories, including learning how to apply engineering and scientific principles to tackle critical world challenges in food product development, global food security, and healthy sustainable food production.
Whether you are interested in pursuing a degree in food safety and technology or food process engineering, our curriculum balances computational data analytics with real-world industry practice. You can focus your coursework on highly marketable commercial domains, including food microbiology, food processing and packaging, computational nutrition, and regulatory compliance. Proudly positioned within Chicago’s massive, multi-billion dollar culinary and food production ecosystem, our food science programs equip you with the exact quality assurance, supply chain safety, and product formulation skills needed to lead teams as food technologists, regulatory affairs directors, and corporate tech innovators.