Dietician is a professional who uses the science of managing food and nutrition to promote a healthy life style.

Skills required to become a Dietician
• Apart from being good communication, a nutritionist should be good at biology, physiology, chemistry, bio chemistry, psychology and cooking.

• Must be good listeners and possess analytical and decision making qualities.

• Must have Organisational and managerial qualities

To become a Dietician you have to do B.Sc. Nutrition course or Four Years Food Technology course after 12th

Eligibility
To join three years B.Sc. Nutrition course or Four Years Food Technology course you must have passed 10+2 Class with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB) as main subjects with at least 60% marks.

Further studies such as a Masters, M Phil and PhD can also be done after graduation

Institutes
Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai
SNDT University, Mumbai
University of Madras, Chennai
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
Maharaja Syajirao University of Baroda, Baroda (Vadodara)
Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur
Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad
Allahabad Agricultural institute, Allahabad
Central Food Technological Research institute, Mysore
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
Lady Irwin College, New Delhi
National Institute of Nutrition (NTR University of Health Science), Hyderabad
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (Calcutta University)
Institute of Home Economics, New Delhi
Sri Ramchandra medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Chennai