Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics and Public Health Nutrition

One-year, two-semester diploma producing entry-level dietetics and public-health-nutrition professionals with clinical, community, and institutional competence.

Program delivers concentrated training in therapeutic nutrition, clinical dietetics, public-health nutrition systems, human physiology, biochemistry, food safety, communication, and institutional food-service management. Structure supports developing the diagnostic, counseling, and diet-planning capabilities required in hospitals, community programs, and nutrition-focused industries. Mandatory internship builds applied readiness.

Curricular structure 

First Semester

Second Semester

Total Credits: 32

Features

• Clinical and public-health orientation
• Strong diagnostic and diet-planning focus
• Mandatory internship for applied competence
• Industry-aligned curriculum responding to hospital and community demand
• Communication and counseling integrated with scientific coursework

Objectives

• Master nutrition and dietetics principles
• Apply counseling and communication methods
• Diagnose nutrition-related problems
• Collect and evaluate client health data
• Plan, modify, and monitor diet-care programs
• Understand national public-health nutrition frameworks

Eligibility

• Bachelor’s degree in B.Sc., Food Technology, Public Health Nutrition
• OR bachelor with 100-mark (3-credit) Food and Nutrition component
• Entrance exam mandatory; merit-based selection

• Verify bachelor-level nutritional qualification
• Sit for entrance exam
• Merit ranking and selection
• Enrollment and fee completion
• Begin semester-based coursework and internship track

Job prospects

• Clinical dietitian (entry level)
• Nutrition counselor
• Public-health nutrition worker
• Community-nutrition program assistant
• Food-service and hospital nutrition supervisor
• Nutrition educator
• Research assistant in nutrition projects