Process & Food Technology - 4 years
Companies worldwide are carefully reevaluating their production processes. There is a lot to be done: developing more efficient and environmentally friendly production process, creating smarter food and manufacturing more sustainable consumer products.
Do you want to help companies address the challenges of our time? Then the 4-year Process & Food Technology (PFT) degree programme could be right for you.
You will learn everything about the many different production processes, so you can help improve and renew them. Your interest in technology and science will very much come in handy here. After completing this international (English-language variant) degree programme, you will be ready to work anywhere in the world. Where will you make the most impact?
In the final year of the degree programme, you specialise: you will focus strictly on the chemical side or on food. In the first semester, you deepen your knowledge of your chosen field with working groups, lectures and projects. Are you focussing on processes in the food industry? Then you could be working on functional foods such as cholesterol-lowering margarine, for example. If you choose to specialise in chemical process technology, you could be working with catalysis to generate as few emissions as possible. And then the moment has come: in the final semester of the 4-year Process & Food Technology degree programme, you graduate by completing an assignment at a company. You apply everything you have learned in the previous years to your graduation thesis, your presentation and thesis defence.
- Transcript of Records – If you have not yet completed Secondary School, you must upload a transcript showing your current grades. You can find the transcript template here.
- Secondary School Leaving Certificate – If you have already completed Secondary School, you do not need to upload a separate transcript. Simply upload your Secondary School Leaving Certificate to the application.
An additional document, the Preliminary Graduation Statement, may be required depending on the programme you apply for at this university.
If this document is required, it will appear in the Documents section of the Kastu application form once you start your application.
Important! View the full requirements on the university’s official website. Requirements may vary depending on your nationality and the country where you completed your previous education.
You may not need to take IELTS or TOEFL. University usually allow you to prove your English proficiency in one of the following ways:
- TOEFL iBT*
- IELTS Academic
- A Cambridge English qualification
- A national English examination listed on your secondary school leaving certificate
- An English subject and grade on your secondary school leaving certificate that meet the university’s requirements
- Secondary education completed in English in a country or school qualification accepted by the university
- An International Baccalaureate (IB) or European Baccalaureate (EB) diploma
- Other
Important: Accepted methods and minimum results depend on study programme, your secondary school qualification and the country where you completed your education. Check the official requirements for your chosen study programme.
*Use the Kastu promo code LTU1000102 when registering for TOEFL iBT and receive a 5% discount.
You could be a process technologist working on a new type of recyclable plastic for Sigma Aldrich Amsterdam or GE plastics in Bergen op Zoom. You could also apply for numerous jobs in the FMCG industry. But as a young professional, you do much more. You’ll discover the culture at your company and what the profession does on a daily basis. You’ll attend meetings and company parties. You’ll also learn all there is to know about your market - the latest developments, the competition and what they do. Of course you can also continue your education worldwide at the master’s level.
The multidisciplinary nature of PFT means that you’ll be attractive to employers from all kinds of industries and many of the skills you obtain are transferrable to different professions.
What will you become
- Operations technician
- Food technologist
- Product designer
- Quality controller
- Security advisor
- Chief fire-fighter
- Drug safety medical advisor
- Process safety engineer
- Production specialist
- Research technician
Continue studying
You might, of course, be more academically inclined than your fellow students. If so, you’ll have the option of following a Master’s after you graduate from PFT. The most prestigious Master’s in the Netherlands that deal with process engineering and food technology are at the University of Wageningen and the Technical University in Delft. Examples include: Food Safety, Development and Rural Innovation and Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management. Note, however, that different rules apply in the Netherlands, as most Dutch universities require that THUAS graduates follow a pre-master’s first. Outside the Netherlands, PFT students can follow a Master’s directly after graduation. We’ve seen for instance that PFT students have no problem applying for a Master in Chemical Technology at Universities in Finland, Denmark, England and Belgium.
