undergraduate
Nutrition and Dietetics
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about the
Program
The professional training of the Nutritionist and Dietitian at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), responds to the demands of the social, political, and economic environment of the country. Through the use of a competency-based training model, from which the integrality of the individual is considered and in addition to cognitive learning, skills are discovered and developed, the strengthening of values, the incorporation of socio-affective and attitudinal dimensions, ethics, responsibility towards oneself, others and the environment, to be able to insert themselves in society as citizens aware of the responsibility generated by being professionals and intervening in the solution of problems in the food and nutritional order that obey the current world.
Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 692 | Qualified Registration: MEN N.° 20320 of November 28, 2014.

DEGREE:
Dietitian Nutritionist

DuraTiOn:
10 Semesters

Education LEVEL:
Undergraduate

ModaliTY:
In-person

CAMPUS:
Bucaramanga Health Campus
- Applicant Profile
- Graduate Profile
- Labor Field
- Our Accreditations
APPLICANT
Profile
The applicants to the Nutrition and Dietetics program from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) must have some characteristics that allow them to develop their human and learning potential throughout their career:
- Sensitivity and social commitment.
- Ability to communicate.
- Be critical and disciplined.
- With the ability to learn.
GRADUATE
Profile
The Nutritionist and Dietitians from UIS are high-quality professionals, they are autonomous, ethical, and responsible. As citizens, they are committed, and as professional, they are leaders in the competent teamwork to:
- Advise on the selection, promotion and production of safe and nutritious food.
- Manage food and nutrition services for healthy and sick communities.
- Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care for healthy individuals during the human evolutionary cycle.
- Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care, for the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with health and nutrition problems.
- Administer food and nutrition programs considering the socio-economic and cultural factors of the population.
- Administer nutrition education programs for different audiences, considering the cognitive process, psychological well-being, health and nutritional status of individuals.
- Interpret the fundamentals of research: scientific, statistical, and epidemiological method, to generate knowledge in food and nutrition and communicate its results.
LABOR
Fiel
The Dietitian Nutritionist can work professionally independently or linked to organizations at the public or private level in fields that are located in large areas:
- Food and Food Services
- Clinical Nutrition
- Nutrition in Public Health
- Nutrition Education and Communication
- Research in Food and Nutrition
- Nutrition in sport.
OUR
Accreditations
The program was again accredited by the Resolution Ministry of National Education by Resolution 16811 of August 19, 2016 for a period of 6 years (August 2016 – August 2022). Resolution No. 00177 of 16 January 2017 corrects resolution 16811.
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APPLICANT
Profile
The applicant to the Nutrition and Dietetics program of the Industrial University of Santander must have some characteristics that allow him to develop his human and learning potential throughout his career:
- Sensitivity and social commitment.
- Ability to communicate.
- Be critical and disciplined.
GRADUATE
Profile
The professional Nutritionist and Dietitian UIS is of high quality, as a person: he is autonomous, ethical and responsible, as a citizen he is committed, and as a professional he is a leader in the competent teamwork to:
- Advise on the selection, promotion and production of safe and nutritious food.
- Manage food and nutrition services for healthy and sick communities.
- Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care for healthy individuals during the human evolutionary cycle.
- Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care, for the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with health and nutrition problems.
- Administer food and nutrition programmes taking into account the socio-economic and cultural factors of the population.
- Administer nutrition education programs for different audiences, taking into account the cognitive process, psychological well-being, health and nutritional status of individuals.
- Interpret the basic fundamentals of research: scientific, statistical and epidemiological method, to generate knowledge in food and nutrition and communicate its results.
Labor
Field
The Dietitian Nutritionist can work professionally independently or linked to organizations at the public or private level in fields that are located in large areas:
- Food and Food Services
- Clinical Nutrition
- Nutrition in Public Health
- Nutrition Education and Communication
- Research in Food and Nutrition
- Nutrition in Sport.
OUR
Accreditations
The program was again accredited by the Resolution Ministry of National Education by Resolution 16811 of August 19, 2016 for a period of 6 years (August 2016 – August 2022). Resolution No. 00177 of 16 January 2017 corrects resolution 16811.
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Academic
Curriculum
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- 2°
- 3°
- 4°
- 5°
- 6°
- 7°
- 8°
- 9°
- 10°
- Elective Subjects
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Code: 24928 Credits: 0 University Life and Culture
Code: 23508 Credits: 2 Introduction to Nutrition
Code: 23427 Credits: 3 Language Workshop
Code: 23423 Credits: 3 Physical and Sports Culture
Code: 21958 Credits: 1 Human Development and Sexuality I
Code: 20422 Credits: 6 Biosciences I
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Code: 27553 Credits: 7 General Morphophysiology
Code: 23472 Credits: 6 Biosciences II
Code: 23438 Credits: 2 Colombian Sociopolitical System
Code: 23437 Credits: 2 Psychological Development
Code: 22110 Credits: 1 Human Development and Sexuality II
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Code: 27554 Credits: 3 Basic Nutrition
Code: 23441 Credits: 2 Economics in Food and Nutrition
Code: 23440 Credits: 4 Public Health
Code: 23439 Credits: 3 Food Chemistry
Code: 2 Credits: 3 Optional Subject
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Code: 23444 Credits: 3 Research Seminar I
Code: 23443 Credits: 3 Microbiology and Food Safety
Code: 23442 Credits: 4 Food Legislation and Standardization
Code: 23424 Credits: 4 English I
Code: 2 Credits: 3 Optional Subject
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Code: 23474 Credits: 1 Professional Ethics
Code: 23452 Credits: 4 Food Planning
Code: 23447 Credits: 4 Research Seminar II
Code: 23445 Credits: 5 Food Technology I
Code: 23425 Credits: 4 English II
Code: 22964 Credits: 3 Business Management I
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Code: 23453 Credits: 3 Education and Communication Strategy
Code: 23451 Credits: 3 Nutritional Epidemiology
Code: 23450 Credits: 4 Marketing Fundamentals
Code: 23449 Credits: 3 Food Technology II
Code: 23448 Credits: 4 Nutrition and Physical Activity
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Code: 27557 Credits: 3 Education and Communication Materials
Code: 27556 Credits: 1 Nutraceutical
Code: 27555 Credits: 3 Pharmacology and Toxicology
Code: 23456 Credits: 4 Collective Feeding
Code: 23455 Credits: 7 Food in the Human Life Process
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Code: 23461 Credits: 7 Adult Clinical Nutrition
Code: 23460 Credits: 7 Pediatric Clinical Nutrition
Code: 23459 Credits: 3 Quality Management
Code: 23458 Credits: 3 Local Management
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Code: 40031 Credits: 14 Integrated Practices I: Food and Management
Code: 40032 Credits: 14 Integrated Practices II: Public Nutrition
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Code: 40033 Credits: 14 Integrated Practices III: Clinical Nutrition
Code: 40034-1 Credits: 14 Integrated Practices IV: Food Area
Code: 40034-2 Credits: 14 Integrated Practices IV: Nutrition Education and Communication Area
Code: 40034-3 Credits: 14 Integrated Practices IV: Nutrition and Physical Activity Area
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KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
- Registration
- Requirements
- Costs
1st semester 2023 ![]() * Subject to demand |
|
Collection opening 2022 Oct 14 Collection closing 2022 Dec 2 |
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Registration opening 2022 Oct 18 Registration closing 2022 Dec 6 Admission results 2022 Dec 15 |
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:
- Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
- Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
- A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.
NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.
NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.
A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:
- He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
- He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
- He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
- He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
- He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.
NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link
Additional requirements
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Inscription
$100.000
FOR 1 PROGRAM
Inscription
$150.000
FOR 2 PROGRAMS

Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.
Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.
For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
- Registration
- Requirements
- Costs
1st semester
2023
* Subject to demand

Bucaramanga
Collection opening2022 Oct 14
Collection closing
2022 Dec 2
Registration opening
2022 Oct 18
Registration closing
2022 Dec 6
Admission results
2022 Dec 15
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:
- Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
- Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
- A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.
NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.
NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.
A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:
- He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
- He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
- He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
- He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
- He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.
NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link
Inscription
$100.000
FOR 1 PROGRAM
Inscription
$150.000
FOR 2 PROGRAMS
Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.
Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.
For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office
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School of Nutrition and Dietetics
Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3128 / 3154
Email:
escnut@uis.edu.co

UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra. 32 #29-31
Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us

School of Nutrition and Dietetics
Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3128 / 3154
Email:
escnut@uis.edu.co

UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra. 32 #29-31
Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us

School of Nutrition and Dietetics
Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3128 / 3154
Email:
escnut@uis.edu.co

UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra. 32 #29-31
Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.