The University of Agriculture in Krakow (URK) offers Food Engineering as full-time Master's studies in English at the Faculty of Food Technology, in the discipline of nutrition and food technology. The programme is aimed at engineers who want to design and manage food production on an industrial scale and move into engineering or managerial roles in the food industry.
Compulsory courses cover modern technologies of processing animal products, carbohydrates and plants, food engineering, process control, computational methods in food engineering, basics of programming, physical chemistry, statistics and experiment design and nutrigenomics. Food law, fundamentals of entrepreneurship and communication in management add the legal and business side.
Optional courses let you go further in directions such as fermentation technology and industrial microbiology, applied and industrial enzymology, bioreactor engineering, food nanotechnology, new packaging materials, sensory and physicochemical food analysis or nutrition and health.
The whole programme is taught in English by academic staff who each hold at least a PhD, and some classes may be led by foreign visiting professors.
You learn to design technological lines, select equipment, calculate production costs and control processes with computer tools. Graduates can work:
Did you know? Among the optional courses is functional and regional cuisine, together with modern methods and trends in gastronomy.
As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme page at urk.edu.pl.
