Food Safety and Quality Massey University

Overview

A Master of Food Safety and Quality from Massey University is a good fit if you already work in an area relevant to food safety and want to further your career, are looking for professional development and have a passion for improving food safety and quality.

Food safety and quality are essential to the success of all food manufacturing companies and critical for New Zealand’s economic success. Food manufacturers need absolute confidence in the safety and quality of their products. You can choose to study full time or part time with a programme supported with an on-line learning environment.

In big demand by employers around the world

Food companies have a growing need for expertise in food safety and quality. If they do not have this expertise themselves, consultants with the relevant qualifications provide them with services.

You could start your own consultancy business. Or to work for the government department overseeing food safety in your country.

Work on real food industry issues

The Master in Food Safety and Quality from Massey University provides practical skills as well as a depth of knowledge. These enable you to manage problems in food manufacturing. You’ll also develop preventative tools designed to provide confidence in the quality and safety of food.

World-leading facilities

At Massey University, you will have access to the latest modern food processing and analytical equipment to undertake research that is applied and practical to the food industry.

• A fully equipped pilot plant. This operates under a risk management programme to enable the export of foods of assured safety and quality.
• Specialist equipment for both thermal and non-thermal processing.
• Laboratories equipped to analyse microbial, chemical and foreign matter contaminants, including a PC2 laboratory enabling you to work with foodborne pathogens.
• Instruments to measure food composition.

Massey guarantees you research expertise in meat, fish and dairy technology, fruit and vegetable postharvest storage and processing, food formulation, additives and ingredients.

Career

Graduates of Massey’s Master of Food Safety and Quality have many opportunities to capitalise on the demands of the global food industry. There is steady growth internationally for experts in the management of food safety and quality in government departments, the food industry, and in consultancy and regulatory organisations. These careers span auditing, crisis management, training and establishing risk management systems.

The programme gives you the potential to lead to senior management roles or establishing your own business as a consultant.

The food industry is dynamic and with that comes the need for research in innovative and effective methods in food assurance.

The Massey Master of Food Safety and Quality positions you to deal with new challenges and develop smart solutions for tomorrow’s problems.

A 2017 Ministry of Education publication, The post-study earnings and destinations of young domestic graduates, found that in New Zealand:

• young master’s graduates earn more than one and a half times more than the national median (five years after study)
• five years after completion, the median earnings of young master’s graduates are 15% higher than for those with a bachelor’s degree
• earnings and employment rates increase with the level of qualification completed.
• Five years after completion, the median earnings of young master’s graduates are 15% higher than for those with a bachelor’s degree.