Grado en Nutrición Humana y Dietética

A society that demands food quality and safety

(*) Degree in verification process

The importance and social, academic, scientific and professional interest of the dietitian-nutritionist has been acquiring more and more relevance. Their role has transcended from academic levels to society itself, increasingly concerned about food and its direct relationship with quality of life and health.

The Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Universidad Loyola trains you as a professional so that you can practice professionally in activities related to food, adapting it to the physiological and/or pathological needs of people, and always in accordance with the principles of protection and Health promotion.

Why study at Loyola?

You can live the international experience

We offer you the possibility of studying in more than 200 universities around the world. You can participate in Erasmus+ programs, Erasmus internships, exchanges outside the European Union, SICUE, or summer programs with partner universities.

We help you in your jump to the labor market

We have more than 2,000 internship agreements with national and international companies and institutions. From the Professional Careers Service we will provide you with individualized advice and practical training to help you design your career and your incorporation into the labor market.

We support entrepreneurial initiatives

Are you an entrepreneur? Loyola is your place. You will be able to take business creation subjects, participate in business idea programs and contests, and at Loyola Initiatives we will inspire and accompany you so that you can make your idea come true.

You will learn with the best

We have a faculty of a high scientific and pedagogical level that undergoes ongoing evaluation and training, which allows them to be up-to-date in their respective specialties and in the most innovative ways of teaching.

Practical and experiential training

You will be able to put into practice what you learn in class by carrying out individual and group projects, gamification sessions, role playing, simulations, visits to companies, etc.

Much more than going to class

At Loyola you can play sports, participate in cultural activities, be part of the debate club, the theater group, volunteer and develop your spiritual dimension.

we are close to you

We care about you, how you feel and what you need. We will assign you a personal tutor and we have a Psychological, Educational and Social Care Service that will assist you whenever you need it.

Jesuit identity

Our Jesuit identity integrates us into a network of more than 190 university centers around the world with an unequivocal track record and prestige, and endorses our social character. Universidad Loyola is integrated into UNIJES and IAJU.

Welcome to Universidad Loyola

Universidad Loyola is a social initiative of the Society of Jesus that is integrated into the Andalusian university system as the first private university of social initiative in the autonomous community.

Depository of the best Jesuit educational tradition, and of the values that have always distinguished it, Universidad Loyola is a firm commitment to the future, in these times of change and uncertainty, that wants to respond to the demand of all those who believe in the education as a guarantee for the future.

Our academic offer is directed to the training needs in the field of social sciences and technology. Our research vocation seeks to recognize us as a university of scientific production with a high social impact that proposes real solutions to the problems that affect our world. Training, Research and Service are the pillars on which Loyola is built.

Our Jesuit identity integrates us into a network of more than 230 university centers around the world with an unequivocal trajectory and prestige, from the United States to India and from Latin America to Japan, and endorses our social character, with which we want to train men and women committed to others.

Universidad Loyola is a university for everyone, where all those who recognize themselves in constant effort and in the search for excellence, professional and human, have a place.

Trustees of the Jesuit educational tradition

The Universidad Loyola has its origin in ETEA, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of Córdoba, with experience in higher education since 1963. The educational tradition of the Jesuits was born with the beginnings of the Society of Jesus in 1540. Its founder, Ignacio de Loyola, turned to serve society through education, dialogue and the encounter of faith with science.

The Company was the first religious order to found a university, the Roman College in 1551. Today there are 193 universities and university centers in more than 70 countries with more than 160,000 students of all faiths.

Identity and mission. Universidad Loyola Values

Our mission

Universidad Loyola has the mission of creating thought for the best and greatest service of humanity, forming men and women for others, committed to the problems of the world, and making all its activity a place of fruitful dialogue and meeting in which people of different cultures, beliefs and ideologies can live an inspired and committed life with others and with creation.

Our vision

Universidad Loyola aspires to be a Doctoral Research University, recognized for its academic and research excellence, inspired by faith and serving others. To be a Doctoral Research University in its activity and a Jesuit for its inspiration and way of proceeding.

A university that investigates and promotes the creation of knowledge about the needs and problems of today's world. A university that trains people who are agents of change, professionals committed to the development of a more humane, just and sustainable society. A university at the service of the closest society and of those who live in oppressed societies.

Our values

• Passion to know
• Excellence
• Requirement
• Service
• Universality and openness
• Commitment
• Transcendence and spirituality

Universidad Loyola is integrated into UNIJES, a network of universities and university centers of the Society of Jesus in Spain.