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Bachelor's Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics

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  • Modality
    In-person
  • Languages
    Catalan, Spanish
  • Duration
    4 academic years
  • Credits
    240
  • Date
    September 2026
  • Planning

    First-, and second-year students: From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

    Third-, and fourth-year students: From 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

  • Places
    60
  • Location

    Blanquerna-URL - Carrer Padilla, 326-332. 08025 Barcelona

  • Faculty

    Blanquerna School of Health Sciences

Who is the course aimed at?

All those who like to gain in-depth knowledge of the composition of food, the human body, the reactions and metabolic processes that take place, identify why we eat what we eat and know how to handle and cook food to ensure optimal hygiene and food safety guidelines. To learn how to plan healthy, sustainable and adapted dietary proposals for people who are healthy or ill, in order to ensure individual and community health and foster an optimal standard of living.

Great scope for professional growth

Clinical nutrition to conduct dietitian-nutritionist tasks in hospitals and private practices

Public and community health to work with public and private entities, NGOs, etc. in order to foster health and prevent diseases

Mass catering, whether social or commercial, to ensure service quality from a hygiene and food safety, nutritional, organoleptic and economical viewpoint

Food industry, whether in marketing and communication, R&D or research

If you choose the bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics at Blanquerna, you choose…

A bachelor's degree designed in order to train professionals committed to the well-being of others on a daily basis

  • Training by sharing the professional experiences of active faculty and experts in the subject taught.
  • Compulsory external internships in three different fields (clinical, community and mass catering) that will enable you to contact potential future employers. You will also have the possibility of doing international internships in benchmark universities.
  • Seminars where you will work on cases and situations in groups of around ten students, with the guidance and accompaniment of an advisor.
  • Potential job placement in places where external internships are conducted.
  • Innovative teaching methodologies and professional scenario simulations.
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You will experience the passion for your future profession learning from expert faculty in the field

Key data

+600

Hours of external practice

200

Seminar and simulation hours

80%

of students would take the degree again

97,4%

Employability (AQU, 2023)

A unique methodology based on personalized learning.

The Blanquerna-URL methodology is based on seminars, a core element in order to achieve personalized and qualitative learning and holistic training that entails academic and professional skills, but also personal and human ones.

Personalized education

One of our hallmarks is the individualization of studies and the tutored follow-up of the learning process.

Upwards of 200 hours of seminar and clinical simulation

Small group seminars enable us to recreate situations of real clinical cases.

Internships, the key to success

We hold agreements with more than 200 healthcare centers for internships.

Internationalization of studies

We promote the internationalization of studies through mobility programs to provide you with a unique experience abroad.

Specific characteristics of the School

Seminari a la FCS

Seminars held in reduced groups for tailored learning

Classe FCS

Innovative teaching methodology

Alumnes de la FCS

Studies taken abroad to give students an enriching experience

FPCEE Entrada

Study for a double major

Study for two majors simultaneously, consecutively or following a track tailored to you

Academic information

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Curriculum

The curriculum is designed with a curricular itinerary that ensures up-to-date, generalist and quality basic training.

Credits

FirstSecondThirdFourthTotal
Final degree project 10 10
Core curriculum 40 24 64
Internships 7 17 24
Compulsory 20 36 53 27 136
Optional 6 6
Total 60 60 60 60 240

SubjectCreditsAcademic type
First semester
Anatomy-physiology 1 6Core curriculum
Biology 6Core curriculum
Food science 1 5Compulsory
ENG/Investigación y gestión de datos 6Core curriculum
Chemistry 4Compulsory
Second semester
Anatomy-physiology 2 6Core curriculum
Anthropology 6Core curriculum
Food science 2 5Compulsory
Physiology applied to nutrition 6Core curriculum
Sociology 4Core curriculum
Annual
Interdisciplinary seminar 6Compulsory

SubjectCreditsAcademic type
Third semester
Communication 6Core curriculum
Dietetics 1 4Compulsory
English 1 6Core curriculum
Microbiology-toxicology 4Compulsory
Psychology 6Core curriculum
Professionalising seminar 1 4Compulsory
Fourth semester
Dietetics 2 8Compulsory
Statistics 6Core curriculum
Physiopathology 6Compulsory
Food safety 4Compulsory
Culinary technology 6Compulsory

SubjectCreditsAcademic type
Fifth semester
Bioethics 4Compulsory
Diet Therapy 1 6Compulsory
Pharmacology 6Compulsory
Food service management 4Compulsory
Public healthcare 6Compulsory
Professionalising seminar 2 4Compulsory
Sixth semester
Diet therapy 2 4Compulsory
English in health sciences 6Compulsory
Community nutrition 6Compulsory
Food preparation in diet therapy 4Compulsory
Nutritional evaluation 3Compulsory
External practice 1 7Practicum

SubjectCreditsAcademic type
Seventh semester
Economy and management-legislation 6Compulsory
Nutritional education 6Compulsory
Diet therapy 3 4Compulsory
Marketing-regulation 4Compulsory
Professionalising seminar 3 4Compulsory
Eighth semester
Option 1. Choose from one the following 2 options: 3Optional
Nutrition and immunity
Nutrition and physical activity
Option 2. Choose from one the following 2 options: 3Optional
Microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics
Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics
Food science and food law 3Compulsory
End-of-course project 10Final degree project
Annual
External practice 2 17Practicum
ENG/ Al finalizar el grado el estudiante habrá tenido que cursar 6 créditos de Optativas

Credits

FirstSecondThirdFourthTotal
Practicum 16 16
Final degree project 6 6
Core curriculum 42 18 52 112
Compulsory 18 42 8 29 97
Optional 9 9
Total 60 60 60 60 240

Subject
First semester
Anatomy and Physiology 1 6Core curriculum
Applied Food Chemistry 6Core curriculum
Biology 6Core curriculum
Food Science 1 6Compulsory
Laboratory 3Compulsory
Second semester
Anatomy and Physiology 2 6Core curriculum
Biochemistry 6Core curriculum
Anthropology 6Core curriculum
Food Science 2 4Compulsory
Physiology of Nutrition 5Compulsory
Annual
Seminar in Health Sciences 6Core curriculum

Subject
Third semester
Sociology and Sustainability 6Core curriculum
Psychology and Therapeutic Communication 6Core curriculum
Food Innovation and Technology 5Compulsory
Dietary Techniques and Strategies 5Compulsory
Molecular Nutrition and Genetics 5Compulsory
Professional Seminar 1 3Compulsory
Fourth semester
Biostatistics 6Core curriculum
Culinary Technology 6Compulsory
Microbiology and Toxicology 6Compulsory
Dietetics 8Compulsory
Research Methodology 4Compulsory

Subject
Fifth semester
Food Hygiene, Safety and Legislation 5Compulsory
Nutritional Assessment 4Compulsory
Pathophysiology and Diet Therapy 1 9Compulsory
Basic Pharmacology 3Compulsory
Public Health and Nutritional Epidemiology 6Compulsory
Professional Seminar 2 3Compulsory
Sixth semester
Food service and Food Quality 4Compulsory
Pathophysiology and Diet Therapy 2 6Compulsory
Artificial and Hospital Nutrition 3Compulsory
Advanced Pharmacology 3Compulsory
Community Nutrition 6Compulsory
Placement 1 8Practicum

Subject
Seventh semester
Economics and Management-Legislation 5Compulsory
Pathophysiology and Diet Therapy 3 4Compulsory
Communication Strategies 3Compulsory
Bioethics 4Compulsory
Nutrition education Strategies 6Compulsory
Placement 2 8Practicum
Eighth semester
Marketing and Regulation 4Compulsory
Professional Seminar 3 3Compulsory
You must choose 3 electives from the List:
Abordaje de la alimentación en los Trastornos de la Conducta alimentaria 3Optional
Alimentación y envejecimiento saludable 3
Consejo alimentario en situaciones de vulnerabilidad socioeconómica y culturas alimentarias diversas 3
Chronobiology and chrononutrition 3
Dietoterapia en pediatría 3
Diseño de programas y actividades de educación alimentaria 3
Nutrition & Immunity 3
Microbioma: probióticos y prebióticos 3
Sports nutrition 3
Sustainable food systemss 3
Placement 3 8Practicum
Final Degree Project 6Final degree project

We make it easy, so you can choose whatever you want to study

Course fees are paid in installments without any interest. At the time of enrollment, 50% of the total cost of the credits for which the student is enrolled must be paid*; the remaining 50% is split into nine monthly installments (from October to June) payable by direct debit.

The tuition fee / credit of degrees is regularized each academic year for all courses.

Tuition fee for the 2026–27 academic year

Tuition fee per credit
€154,97
Total first-year tuition fee
€9.298,20

Discounts for bachelor's degrees from Blanquerna-Ramon Llull University

Fundació Blanquerna discounts (not cumulative with each other):

  • Student member of a large or single-parent family: 5% discount.
  • Student with disability >33%: 5% discount.
  • Blanquerna family (student, child, sibling or partner, student): 5% discount. Anyone who has completed an official degree will be considered an Alumni.

In order to apply the discount, you must prove it with the corresponding document. Students must bring the original document in person to the Academic Secretariat, together with their identification document, for validation and application of the corresponding discount.

The deadline for submitting the supporting documentation for the 2026-2027 academic year is September 30, 2026.

Facultat de Ciències de la Salut FCS

Gain the qualification to practice the regulated profession

The bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics qualifies graduates to work in the area of health and enables them to practice the profession in planning, counseling, teaching, research or management. The dietician-nutritionist can undertake their duties independently, through freely exercising the profession, or in public or private institutions.

Human nutrition and dietetics has a broad range of professional possibilities in a society that is increasingly sensitive to the individual and collective eating habits of various sectors of the population.

Pràctica al laboratori de cuina

Clinical nutrition

Working on the nutrition of the healthy or sick person, considering their physiological or pathological needs, the socioeconomic situation and personal, religious or cultural preferences.

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Community or public health nutrition

Working for people by developing and participating in food policy, prevention and health programs in general, and food education.

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Food industry

Acting as a consultant in the innovation and design of new products and in food-related social marketing.

Restauració col·lectiva

Mass catering

Participating in the management and organization, and ensuring the quality and safety of food throughout the production process. Training food-service staff in food safety, planning menus and assessing the nutritional balance of the food supply.

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Education-teaching

Giving training at public and private centers where knowledge about nutrition, food, dietetics and health is taught.

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Research

Being part of a multidisciplinary research and development team in the area of food, nutrition and health.

Blanquerna Esports

Sports nutrition

Provides nutritional advice to athletes with the aim of achieving high athletic performance and minimising injuries, as well as collaborating in the development of new sports supplements.

Alumnes a la Graduació Blanquerna 2019

A direct link to your future career

Our work doesn't finish the moment you graduate. The Alumni department will support you to enable us to achieve an employment rate of 90% of students in the first year after graduation

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Application for admission

The application process for a place in the 2026-2027 academic year begins on October 29, 2025, and consists of three phases:

  1. Application for admission
  2. Admission
  3. Enrollment

1. Application for admission

The application for a place can be made online or in person and entitles the applicant to participate in the admission process.

It can be done via the Application for admission button on the page for each degree, or directly from here, and requires:

  1. Registering in the single registration system and creating a user account (if not done previously).
  2. Making a payment of €50 (non-refundable) for admission rights and procedures. This can be done with a credit or debit card through a secure and confidential process with BBVA bank.
  3. Uploading the documentation to the document repository before the deadline for the place application process.
  • Identification document (DNI, NIE, Passport)
  • Certification of university entrance qualifications (PAU (University Entrance Exams), CFGS (Higher-Level Vocational Training), International Baccalaureate Diploma, etc.) if available at the time of applying for a place.

It can be done at the School itself, by going to the Student Information and Guidance Service (SIOE), and the following must be submitted:

  1. Photocopy of the identification document (DNI, NIE, Passport)
  2. Photocopy of the certification of university entrance qualifications (PAU (University Entrance Exams), CFGS, International Baccalaureate Diploma, etc.) if available at the time of applying for a place.
  3. Payment of €50 (non-refundable) for admission rights and procedures. This can be made in cash or with a credit or debit card.

IMPORTANT - BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY AND BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN NURSING: Students from High School (Batxillerat):

If, at the time of submitting the application for a place in the degrees in Psychology or Nursing, as well as for simultaneous studies in either of these two degrees (e. g., Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy, or Nursing and Nutrition), the final High School and PAU (University Entrance Exams) grades are already available and are equal to or higher than 7, the applicant will be called to enroll once admitted.

If the final entrance grades for High School and PAU (University Entrance Exams) are not available, an official certificate from the educational center must be attached, containing the average grade for the first year or the final High School grade. Once this certificate is submitted, there are two options:

Option 1. If the grade is equal to or higher than 7, the student will be called to make a conditional enrollment and may choose a shift while places are available.

Option 2. If the grade is lower than 7, the student may participate in the June place allocation, which will be based on the submitted grade as the first criterion and the date of payment of the place application as the second criterion. From the date on which the final grade of the university entrance exams becomes available, if there are still places available, only students who have submitted the certificate with their final admission grade will take part in the allocation process.

Note: In the case of students from international high schools, an official document from the school of origin must be submitted with the final average grade for the course and its equivalence to the Spanish system.

IMPORTANT - BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY AND BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN NURSING: Students from Higher-Level Vocational Training (CFGS):

If, at the time of submitting the application for a place in the degrees in Psychology or Nursing, as well as for simultaneous studies in either of these two degrees (e. g., Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy, or Nursing and Nutrition), the final CFGS grade is already available and is equal to or higher than 8, the applicant will be called to enroll once admitted.

If the entrance grade (neither provisional nor final) for CFGS is not available, applications for a place in the aforementioned studies can be formalized, and the student will participate in the June place allocation, which will be based on the final grade submitted via an official certificate from the educational center containing the final average grade of the qualification. The grade mentioned will be considered as the first criterion, and the date of payment of the place application as the second criterion. For the Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, 10% of places will be reserved for students from this pathway. For the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, 30% of places will be reserved for students from this pathway.

IMPORTANT – DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY AND DEGREE IN NURSING: Students coming from previously started university studies:

If, at the time of applying for a place in the Psychology or Nursing degree programs, as well as for any double degree involving either of these programs (e.g., Psychology and Speech Therapy or Nursing and Nutrition), the applicant has already begun university studies, they must contact the Faculty’s Student Information and Guidance Service.

2. Admission

Approximately within two working days after the place application, the student will be informed by email about their admission. If admitted, the same message will invite them to formalize enrollment, including instructions on when and how to complete the procedure.

The criterion used to call admitted students to formalize enrollment will be the order of payment of the place application. For degrees with more than one shift, note that a shift may fill up during the enrollment period. The place will be definitive once the student has submitted the documentation with the final university entrance information and the first enrollment payment has been made.

For degrees taught in English, students must demonstrate a minimum B2 level of English to be admitted. The level can be accredited through the level test that all degree students must take before starting their program. To prove the minimum level, an official language certificate of B2 or higher can also be submitted: IELTS (6-7), TOEFL (IBT 90-110), CAMBRIDGE, or Official Language Schools, obtained within the last two years. Certificates from other organizations will not be accepted. The certificate does not exempt students from taking the level test to determine the English level for the first year.

It is the student's responsibility to have a level equivalent to B2 in the language of instruction of the degree to properly follow classes

3. Enrollment

The student called to enroll may choose between two options, depending on whether they already have the definitive entrance pathway or not.

  • Conditional Enrollment

Enrollment in the degree can be formalized before passing the PAU (University Entrance Exams) or CFGS or having the entrance pathway. Enrollment will be conditional on the presentation of the corresponding admission pathway. This option secures the place and allows choosing the shift, in the case of degrees with more than one shift, while places are available.

If the student does not obtain the entrance pathway, the enrollment fee will be refunded, but they will lose the place, preference in shift selection, and the amount paid for the place application (€50). If places remain available in July, they may choose to stay on the waiting list until September, and the money will be held, but they will no longer have preference for shift selection. If they do not obtain the entrance pathway by September, the enrollment fee paid will be refunded.

  • Final enrollment

It will be formalized if, at the time of processing the enrollment, the student already has the university entrance pathway. They may opt for the available places and shifts.

IMPORTANT: Degrees with more than one shift may exhaust places in a specific schedule with conditional enrollment. The required documentation must be uploaded via the Document Repository.

The place will be definitive once the student has submitted the documentation with the final university entrance information and the first enrollment payment has been made.

NOTE: Students in the Communication Degrees must take an English level test that will not be exclusionary for admission but will determine the level at which they start the first year. Each student will be informed of the test date and time by email.

Studies can be paid upfront and/or in interest-free installments. If payment by installment is selected, upon enrollment the student will have two business days to pay 50% of the total cost of the enrolled credits, using their chosen form of payment; this payment will not be taken by direct debit. The remaining 50% will be divided into nine monthly payments from October to June via bank direct debit from the account provided at the time of enrollment. Prices for each academic year are updated annually.

Once payment is made, the corresponding receipt of enrollment can be viewed in the student's Document Repository and via the student's portal.

INTERNATIONAL OR FOREIGN STUDENTS

For the foreign student admission process, the following considerations and requirements must be taken into account in accordance with the prevailing regulations.

Students must apply to the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) to obtain the credential certifying that they meet the requirements to access university studies within the state education system (UNED Credential). Therefore, they do not need to take the PAU (University Entrance Exams), but without the mentioned credential, they cannot enroll in our degrees.

The education systems that can be accessed through this pathway are: Germany, Andorra, Austria, European Schools (European baccalaureate), International Baccalaureate, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, China and Cyprus.

These students may access our degrees by submitting the homologation of the High School diploma from the Spanish Ministry of Education or from the autonomous communities with transferred competence, such as the Generalitat de Catalunya. Proof of application for convalidation will be sufficient for students to enroll and begin taking a bachelor's degree course, however full enrollment is conditional on convalidation being confirmed. Bear in mind that convalidating studies can take more than three months to complete, so this process should be done in parallel with the admissions process to our bachelor's degrees. If the convalidation resolution is not obtained in the terms requested by the interested party, the results of any exams taken, or the enrollment made as a result thereof, are rendered null and void.

Contact

For any questions or inquiries about the place application or enrollment process, contact [email protected]

The bachelor's degree thesis, the step prior to the labor market

The bachelor's degree thesis is a project that marks the end of the bachelor studies stage. It must be a complete and relevant work, enabling students to integrate the competences, knowledge and skills acquired during their bachelor's degree learning and must be applicable to the professional sphere in any of its aspects.

Check the regulations at the following link.

It is an individual, tutored project, with defense, assessment and grading according to established regulations, in which the student is responsible for their own learning process.

The thesis will consist of the completion and presentation by the student of an unpublished work that is included in one of the areas of knowledge proposed by each degree program. The possible types of thesis project are:

  • Research project protocol (quantitative and/or qualitative)
  • Systematic review protocol
  • Education for health program

The follow-up of the thesis is structured on the basis of the formation of groups of 12 students (approximately) accompanied by 2 tutors, who will work in one of the established areas of knowledge. There are four group sessions and the rest of the follow-up is individualized.

The final grade of the thesis will be the weighted average of three grades:

30% follow-up, 40% written work, 30% defense.

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Internships, an experience to introduce you to the labor market

Internships are an essential part of our methodology. We deem it a first step towards the working world that brings students closer to the reality of the sector and gives them a professional outlook. Therefore, we have agreements with a broad variety of companies, organizations, centers and entities in order to meet the needs and preferences of each student.

  • Internships in the field of mass catering.
  • Internships in the field of community nutrition.
  • Internships in the field of clinical nutrition.

  • Immersing students in the career reality and acquiring the skills described in the training programs, in order to facilitate their integration into the world of work and develop their entrepreneurial skills.
  • Integrating the theoretical knowledge acquired.
  • Developing and working on the skills specific to the dietician-nutritionist profession.
  • Getting to know various areas of work and contacting potential future employers.

Where can you do your internship?

Catalan Public Health Agency · Arcasa - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau · Arcasa - Hospital de Mataró · Arcasa - Hospital Duran i Reynals · Arcasa - Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol · Associació de Diabètics de Catalunya · Catering Arcasa, S.L. · Cesnut Nutricion, S.L. · CLECE, S.A.- Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge · Clínica Diagonal, S.L. · Consell Català de l'Esport · Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí de Sabadell · Consorci Mar Parc de Salut de Barcelona. Hospital del Mar · Consorci Sanitari del Maresme - Hospital de Mataró · Creu Roja Catalunya · Fárfara Lab · Fundació Alícia · Fundació Catalana de l'Esplai · Fundació Dieta Mediterrània · Fundació Futur · Fundació Hospital Asil de Granollers · Fundació Privada Hospital de Mollet · Fundació Institut Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (Fundació IMIM) · Fundació per a la Investigació Nutricional - FIN · Fundació Privada Servidigest · GAN Nutrición y Gastronomía, S.L. · Hospital de Nens de Barcelona · Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu · Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi · Hospital Municipal de Badalona, S.A. · Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge · Hospital Universitari de Girona Doctor Josep Trueta · Hospital Universitari Dexeus · Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol · Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron · Instant Proces, S.L. · Institut Català d'Oncologia. Hospital Duran i Reynals (ICO) · Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa · ONG Nutrició Sense Fronteres · Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu · Saia Formació, S.L. · SARquavitae Servicios a la Dependencia, S.L. · Sodexo - Hospital de l'Esperança · STICSA, S.L.

Degree accredited by AQU (Quality Assurance Agency)

Gender perspective

As the European Union points out, gender equality is not only a matter of social justice but also affects the results of teaching and research. Promoting gender equality in research and innovation is one of the European Commission's commitments, and it supports the explicit integration of a gender perspective in Horizon 2020 projects. However, this recommendation is often poorly understood and misapplied. Various documents are presented here with a view to contributing to a better understanding and application of the gender perspective in teaching and research.

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