BSc in Human Nutrition & Dietetics

Educating our youth in nutrition is essential to Somaliland future as we aim to help people understand how nutrition and health are intertwined. In Somaliland majority of the population is suffering from food insecurity. Both people’s ability to feed themselves in the short term (risk to live), and their ability to achieve self-sufficiency in the long term (risks to livelihoods) are precarious. The severity of risk to live a healthy life continue to increase as recurrent drought/crisis has cumulative effect in depleting coping capacity year after year. A number of converging trends, including water scarcity, land degradation, a lack of on-farm technological innovation, population growth and climate change can explain the trend towards the increasing food and water insecurity. These trends have combined with the repeated effects of drought over the years and substantially eroded the productive assets of communities and households. The most vulnerable groups among the food insecure are women and children. Especially malnutrition is one of the major health problems in the country affecting primarily children and women of the child bearing age. Protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency (VAD), iron deficiency anemia (IDA), iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are the forefront nutritional problems prevailing in the country. Many of the households most at risk are headed by women.

Graduation Requirement

Graduates students will be awarded with "Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition and Dietetics” If they fulfill the following requirements:

-A minimum credit hour of 128

-A Minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average of 2.00;

-No F, NG, I, in any course; and

-Compliance with the regulation of the University.