The nutrition and Dietetics programme is designed to:

1) Teach courses that will enable the students understand the inter relationships between agriculture, food and nutrition as well as how they relate to health.

2) Train graduates:

a) Who can assess nutritional status of individuals and communities, identity the main nutritional problem in a community, appreciate the causes and severity of malnutrition and design interventions for their solutions.

b) Formulate adequate diets for communities and other private sectors

c) Select quality and quantity foods to prevent and treat nutritional problems identified in communities;

d) Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate nutrition programme to maintain and improve the nutritional status of community.

3) Appreciate the effects of handling methods on the nutritive value of feeds thereby applying appropriate techniques to improve the quality of local foods and diets in order to meet the nutritional needs of individuals, community and population groups.

4) Enable students to have a global view of problems of malnutrition and agencies involved in solving the problems.

5) To prepare graduates who can serve as Dieticians/Nutritionists in the hospitals and other private sectors;

6) To produce graduates for post graduate studies in the same programme and in allied fields.