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Department of Food Science & Technology
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Description: The Department that begun with only 15 students, 4 staff members and one under equipped laboratory has experienced significant growth in its staff establishment, student numbers and physical infrastructure. The Department now boosts of 14 full time academic staff members, a well equipped food microbiology laboratory, a food chemistry/food analysis laboratory, 7 technicians and over 100 undergraduate students.

Having built infrastructure and manpower for postgraduate training, the department admitted the first lot of postgraduate students in 1998. Graduates from the department have filled important positions in the food industry as well as in academic and regulatory organizations.

A Post Graduate programme which offers M.Sc.s and Ph.D.s was started in the Department in 1998. The M.Sc. programme is by research and coursework while the Ph.D. is by research only.
Parent organisation: Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University
Address
City: Kampala
Street: P . O . Box 7062
(residence): Uganda
Phone: (256) 41 542277
Fax: (256) 41 521641
Email: deanagric@agric.mak.ac.ug
Categories
Mandate: national
Status: university
ARD-theme: food technology & human nutrition
Activity: training
research


Last editing: 2006-07-21 09:48:08