Overview

At this Food and Beverage Innovation program at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences you will enjoy exceptional guidance while implementing sustainable innovations. Integrating technology, nutrition, packaging, supply chain, business, strategy, and design, our program thoroughly prepares you for success in this vibrant industry.

Holding a Master's degree in Life Sciences in Food and Beverage Innovation will allow you to:

actively influence the future of the food industry.
develop sustainable products and processes across the entire food value chain and successfully position them on the market.
combine your knowledge of technology, nutrition, packaging, strategy and design to create successful innovative concepts while taking economic, societal, environmental, nutritional and public health issues into account.
demonstrate your creative problem-solving abilities and combine entrepreneurial and scientific thinking.
plan, implement, evaluate and present large-scale research and development projects.
combine science skills with socio-economic skills, and technical skills with social and personal skills to make your future career a lasting success.
perform the interesting and multi-faceted managerial tasks of today’s food industry, in areas such as product and process development, marketing, interface functions, government agencies and universities.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Business Administration for Life Sciences
Management and Leadership for Life Sciences
Innovation and Project Management
Politics and Society
Handling and Visualising Data
Design and Analysis of Experiments
Modelling and Exploration of Multivariate Data
Data and Ethics

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-16 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-30 00:00:00
Starting 2027-02-17 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-31 00:00:00

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Language

English

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Credits

90 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Bern, Switzerland
Wädenswil, Switzerland
Olten, Switzerland

Disciplines

Food Science View 5 other Masters in Food Science in Switzerland

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Successful completion of a university of applied sciences Bachelor's degree programm with an ECTS grade A or B or a grade average of at least 5.0 (Swiss grade system)
Candidates with a university or ETH Bachelor's degree are admitted after completing a practically-related "passerelle", that is, a 6-month internship in their desired area of specialization

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

1440 CHF / year

≈ 1440 CHF / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

1440 CHF / year

≈ 1440 CHF / year

Living costs

Bern

Switzerland

1655 - 2130 CHF / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

Win a €10000 Scholarship! Deadline: 30 June 2020

Embark on your journey with the Studyportals Scholarship! We're giving away a total of 20,000 euros to help you achieve your dream of studying abroad.

Win a €10000 Scholarship! Deadline: 30 June 2020

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Scholarships Information

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