Murdoch University’s Food Centre and postgraduate food science programs are off to a flying start for 2025. The Nambeelup location within the Food Innovation Precinct of WA (FIPWA) is now up and running for students domestic and international students.

Enrolments for 2025 have exceeded expectations. Twenty-two postgraduate students will study postgraduate Food Science at the new Nambeelup campus in semester one, 2025. Subjects on offer this semester include Food Product Design and Development, Food Commodities and Food Chemistry. Human Nutrition has a record 45 students already enrolled from Food Science and Food Security streams with enrolments expected to reach 55 students.

Why so popular? A brand-new campus, a robustly designed curriculum and a fantastic teaching team with an industry based practical approach to learning. The Food Science programs are among the strongest in food safety available. Individual units in Food Microbiology, Food Safety and Risk Assessment allow students to specialise in this crucial area.

Murdoch Food Science students also have something else none of the others do. The Sustainable Innovative Food Technology Facility (SIFT) located next door within FIPWA. This state-of-the-art food factory allows fledgeling food producers to turn their product concepts into real food products actually sitting on shop shelves in WA. Students are literally working right alongside and with industry to help build food innovation in WA.

Read more about it here.

For more information about:

• Graduate Certificate in Food Science
• Graduate Diploma in Food Science
• Master of Food Science (Industry Practice and Innovation)
• Master of Food Science (Industry Practice)

Contact Dr Wendy Hunt [Wendy.Hunt@murdoch.edu.au] or Dr Suwimol Chockchaisawasdee [Suwimol.Chockchaisawasdee@murdoch.edu.au]