Nutrition and Dietetics Degrees in Victoria in 2026
According to the Dietitian Association of Australia (DAA) - Dietitian or nutritionist | Dietitians Australia, there is a distinction made between dietitians and other occupations in the nutrition and food science field, including that of nutritionist.
The key difference between a dietitian and a nutritionist is that, in addition to or as part of their qualification in human nutrition, a dietitian has undertaken a course of study that included substantial theory and supervised and assessed professional practice in clinical nutrition, medical nutrition therapy and food service management.
So, in Australia, all dietitians are nutritionists however nutritionists without a dietetics qualification cannot take on the expert role of a dietitian.
Victorian universities offering undergraduate courses in nutrition, food science and/or dietetics include:
UNIVERSITY | COURSE | VCE PREREQ’ SUBJECTS | ATAR 2026 |
ACU (M) – Melbourne
| Nutrition Science | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL. | 58.95 (M) |
Deakin (M) - Melbourne | Nutrition Science | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL. | 62.15 (M) |
Nutrition Science (Dietetics Pathway)
| Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL. | 90.40 (M) | |
Federation Online only | Food and Nutrition | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in any English; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of any Mathematics or any Science.
| 50.80 |
La Trobe (M) – Melbourne
| Food and Nutrition | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL.
| 60.50 (M) |
| Food and Nutrition/Master of Dietetics | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL. | 90.20 (M) | |
Monash (C) – Clayton | Nutrition Science | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL.
| 71.75 (C) |
Nutrition Science - Scholars Program (Dietetics Pathway)
| Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL. | 90.60 (C) | |
RMIT (C/B) – City/Bundoora | Food Technology & Nutrition | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English other than EAL or at least 27 in EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of Maths: General Mathematics, Maths: Mathematical Methods or Maths: Specialist Mathematics.
| 73.40 (C/B) |
SWINBURNE (H) – Hawthorn | Nutrition | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in English other than EAL or at least 25 in EAL.
| 60.65 (H) |
| Nutrition / Master of Dietetics | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in English other than EAL or at least 25 in EAL.
| 70.55 (H) | |
Victoria (F) - Footscray
**Not Foundation Maths | Human Nutrition | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in EAL, or at least 20 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of Biology, Chemistry, Health and Human Development, any Mathematics** or Physical Education.
| N/P (F)
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| Nutritional Science/Master of Dietetics | Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 EAL, or at least 25 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in two of Biology, Chemistry, Health and Human Development, any Mathematics**, Physical Education or Physics.
| 83.30 (F) |
Note: Food Science and Nutrition are often offered as majors/minors in courses in biomedicine, exercise science, health, and science degrees, etc. For example, human nutrition is offered as a major in the Bachelor of Biomedicine at University of Melbourne.