India is a growing country in the food industry. There are around 500 million high and medium class consumers and any industry that is involved in the food sector, do not want to spoil the opportunity to grab the consumers. That's why the demand for food technologists is increasing day by day in India. A professional in the field of food technology can find employment in the field of food manufacturing plants, research and development labs, catering companies, food wholesalers, restaurants and the hospital. People can choose the area of their working as per the interest of their subject.

The LPU programme comes with the Pathway electives for CORPORATE JOBS:

FOOD INDUSTRY WASTE MANAGEMENT

This course will provide the information for the tools and techniques used for waste management in the food industry.

INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY

Develop an understanding of the role microorganism plays in fermentation and its industrial importance.

PROJECT PREPARATION AND MANAGEMENT

The course emphasises on the importance of Project Management in a business and enables us to use tools and techniques for decision making.

RISK ANALYSIS

The course will expose the students to various risks encountered during handling, processing and storage of food and methods to analyse the risks involved and their remedy.

FLAVOUR CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY

The course will help the students to understand the Science behind the art of flavouring foods, their analysis, the problem of off-flavours and the reasons thereof, development of flavours for specific applications, and legal aspects on use of flavours in food products.

FOOD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Impart knowledge about various technologies for food products development. FOOD

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Provides information on physical, chemical and biological contaminants in foods and awareness about quality management in the food production chain.

PROCESSING OF PLANTATION CROPS HERBS AND SPICES

The course is about the processing, equipment used and value addition of plantation crops like tea, coffee, coconut, cashew and arecanut. Also processing of spices, herbs and medicinal plants are dealt with in this course.

This makes LPU an ideal choice for the programme. Recently NIRF has ranked LPU among the top 100 universities in the country !

The maximum salary LPU M Sc Food Technology students have got is 11 lpa and the average salary was 4.1 lpa. The companies that LPU students have been employed with are Roots Analysis, Dr. Lal Path Labs, Nestle, Meditab, Zyla Health, Panacea Biotech, Pulsus Health, Practo, Alembic Pharmaceuticals, Zydus Cadila, Healthplix Technologies, Indegene Life Systems, Redcliffe Life Diagnostics, Sagacious Research, Serum Institute of India, Cactus Communications, Aakash Educational Services, PIMS, Titan Biotech, Allied analytics, Cognizant, Wipro, Hi Care, Lifecell, Databridge Services, Eclerx, Wisdom Global, TechSci Research, Dalmia Healthcare, Freyr Solutions, Meditab, Cryoviva Biotech, Poly Medicure Ltd., Nanoveda Solutions, etc.

Lovely Professional University is very good in terms of placement, infrastructure, teaching quality, facilities, security. They provide the best platform for learning. They train you in acquiring soft skills, technical skills, and they provide you personality enhancement classes and industrial exposure to make you prepared as per current industrial trends. I am having my cousin in Lovely Professional University, he is pursuing M. Sc. (Food Science and Technology). He has been given a huge amount of scholarship if we come to the university, infrastructure is good, teachers are friendly, he has to attend various workshops, making his knowledge increase to a large extent. He is currently in the last semester. Around 4 months are left and he has already been placed at a good salary package. He told me about the student organizations of which he was a member. His team conducted a fundraising event so that they can provide useful things to a school and an old age home. They had organized free health check-up camp in villages. All these activities have improved his managing skills, time management, presentation skills. I noticed that after joining LPU he improved a lot. He also said that university provides a platform to the students to run their own venture, a student can avail seed money for initiating the project.