Master in Gastronomic Sciences

Master of research specialization oriented to the gastronomy, hospitality and food sector.

An official university Master's degree to develop your professional future in the field of research and innovation of new food products, as well as in teaching and the doctorate.

We highlight

• You will know the methodologies of research in the gastronomic sector for the development of new products and services
• You will carry out your Master's Final Project in restaurants, research centers, food industries and universities of national and international reference
• You will attend gastronomic congresses and actively participate in entrepreneurship initiatives and the generation of new businesses
• You will learn from the best expert professors from top-level universities and entities

Learning based on real projects for the Master in Gastronomic Sciences

The Master in Gastronomic Sciences has the students and their personal, social and professional training, as the center of its teaching methodology. It is an eminently practical model based on competencies that will help you solve the challenges and projects that will arise throughout the master's degree. This learning methodology will help you to assimilate the knowledge and skills that you will develop during the degree and will provide you with the necessary work experience to carry out your professional career as a gastronomic science professional.

From the first moment you will base your learning on the realization of practical projects. You will have to face challenges launched by renowned companies or professionals from the world of gastronomy and food, such as creating new food products or researching satiation.

In this way, you will be able to apply the knowledge acquired in real environments and get to know your future profession first-hand.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to attend seminars, practical workshops, congresses and masterclasses taught by experts from outside the university who work in leading companies.

Practices and Master's Thesis

Gain experience related to gastronomy and food while you study

Before finishing your Master in Gastronomic Sciences, you will already be working as a professional in a leading company, restaurant, in a technology center or in the R&D unit of a university or research center. The close relationship that the Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences - Basque Culinary Center maintains with the gastronomy, hospitality and food industry sector gives students the option of obtaining practical and real knowledge about the world of work throughout their studies thanks to to the Project Based Learning model. And it is that you will have the opportunity to carry out practices at the same time that you study.

In addition, the second year you will carry out the Final Master's Thesis for 5 months in a company or technology center where you will have to develop a project, such as carrying out research on satiation or being able to produce innovative products such as black ginger.

Both the internships and the Master's Thesis can be carried out in companies and organizations related to gastronomic sciences and food, at a national or international level. An opportunity that will allow you to gain experience, learn about new realities and develop the skills and abilities that are needed in a profile like yours.

ABP model

At Mondragon Unibertsitatea consider that practice is the key to successful learning. For this reason, in the Master in Gastronomic Sciences you will learn by solving real challenges thanks to the educational model based on practice and the challenges that different companies will propose to you during the course of the master.

In this way, throughout the Master, renowned companies and people in the gastronomy and food sector will throw you challenges to which you must respond with the knowledge and skills acquired in the master. To respond to these challenges and projects, you will have to investigate, analyze, experiment, debate and above all apply everything you have learned in the classroom.

In short, you will learn with a learning model that will allow you to finish the master with professional experience.

origins

Mondragon Unibertsitatea we are a university created in 1997 and officially recognized by law 4/1997 of May 30.

We are born by the association of three educational cooperatives, endorsed by an extensive trajectory and experience in the world of education, Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa "Jose Mª Arizmendiarrieta" S.Coop., ETEO S.Coop. and Irakasle Eskola S.Coop. , which in turn constitute today the two Faculties and School of the University:

• Higher Polytechnic School
• Faculty of Business
• Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences
• In 2011, a fourth faculty was added, the Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences - Basque Culinary Center

Social vocation

At Mondragon Unibertsitatea we maintain a commitment to social transformation, specified in our participatory model.

We are a cooperative university, a member of the MONDRAGON Corporation, with a clear humanistic vocation and committed to our environment, our society and our time.

Our training model implies a system of relationships that, having as its axis the educational system, seeks the involvement of companies and institutions to guarantee social accessibility, combine study and work, the development of research and the transfer of knowledge and the provision of Continuous Training.

A Singular, unique and committed University

Innovation, roots, universality, creativity, dynamism, research, reliability, closeness, connection with the outside, long-range gaze.

These are some of the attributes that define Mondragon Unibertsitatea , a practical, real and committed University, focused on the development of people, oriented to the needs of the company and society, designed to face the challenges of the real world and where knowledge and its application have no borders.

Mission

Mondragon Unibertsitatea is a cooperative university, of public utility, integrated in Mondragon, of initiative and social vocation and non-profit, whose primary mission is the transformation of society through the comprehensive training of people and the generation and transfer of knowledge.

We promote comprehensive quality learning , which incorporates, in addition to scientific-technical knowledge, skills and values derived from cooperative experience in order for our students to be active agents in the transformation of society, contributing to humanistic and technological progress. and sustainable economic, through the development of companies / organizations and entrepreneurship.

Mondragon Unibertsitatea promote the precise conditions to have a group of innovative people committed to the satisfaction of their students, companies and other organizations.

Mondragon Unibertsitatea considers itself a participant in a global university system.