IFST Introduction

The Institute of Food Science and Technology aimed to excel in the food sector through quality education and training to create a potential force to serve the nation at National and Global levels. Our mission is nurturing quality-oriented future Food Scientists to ensure Food safety and security and to raise Dietitians to address health-related issues through expert advice that will lessen community disease burden. The Institute of Food Science and Technology has highly qualified expert staff. Faculty is focused on students' personal and professional grooming, to provide quality education and advanced training to produce qualified Food and Nutrition professionals for food industries, hospitals, NGO’s, teaching, and national, international research organizations. 

The Institue of Food Science and Technology has toiled to build Industry-Academia Linkages (IAL) to align research activities with the need and demands of the market and society. The Institute of Food Science and Technology  signed various MOU’s to create opportunities and to enhance creativity for students. The research and Development (R & D) team of the Food Science is working on the development of nutritious products including Multigrain flour, Dehydrated fruit products as an addition to confectionery, Nutraceutical juices and squash, Fermented indigenous fruit products, and fruit syrups. Following the vision to serve the community, the institute’s Nutrition Group has stepped into community services through conducting Nutrition camps where expert nutritionist staff and senior students provide a free consultation to the public. 
 

Additional Director's Message 

Welcome to Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food,Health Science and Technology,  Khwaja Fareed UEIT, Rahim Yar Khan. It is a matter of pride to be a pioneer of the region introducing variant Food Sciences and Nutrition degree programs. I believe our team efforts and abilities in today's world of increasing complexity and accelerating change must be up to the mark. We are known for potential highly qualified, experienced staff and research group strive to excel in teaching and research to make the department a center of excellence in food science, technology and human nutrition. 

Institute of Food Science and Technology is offering degree courses, BS & MS Food Science and Technology and BS & MS Human Nutrition and Dietetics, MS Food Safety and Quality Management and Doctorate in Food Technology. The degree courses currently offered include 4-year BS, 2-years MS and Ph.D. These programs are aimed to serve the special need of providing high-quality manpower to grow the modern food industry of the 21st century in the country and beyond. Our department has received strong support from both government organizations and the industry. This scale and reach of expertise help us to raise vibrant, professional, and highly motivated graduates who have the ability to grab career opportunities in both the public and private sectors. The strong entrepreneurial spirit of the FST family is well reflected by several start-ups established by our graduates, research students, research fellows as well as some faculty members serving the best quality and safe food.

To potential students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, we would like to encourage you to explore the various sections of this website to learn more about the prospectus of becoming Food Scientists, Food Technologists, Dietitians, and Nutritionists; our curriculum, facilities, and research activities and opportunities. To colleagues, from the food and related industries and organizations, we invite you to find out more about the diverse research interests and expertise of our faculty members that cover almost all major fields of food science, technology, and nutrition discipline. You are invited to discuss with us any collaboration opportunities. From the wealth of information provided on this website, you are able to find out why the courses of the Department of Food Science and Technology have been among the most popular ones since its inception. We appreciate your visit to our portal hope you find this useful when you visit it. 

Vision

The Department of Food Science and Technology at KFUEIT would like to be recognized nationally and globally as a high seminary of learning pertinent to Food and Nutrition, Food quality and Safety, Food Analysis, Food Microbiology, other novel and emerging trends of 21st century. The professionals (teachers / researchers) aimed to excel imparting education and trainings contribute for local and national development of the country in an efficient manner.

Mission

Our mission is to provide quality education in Food Science and Technology:

• To provide an outstanding educational experience and unique research and training opportunities in Food safety and nutritional science, and to develop multidisciplinary and quality-oriented leaders to solve important national and global health problems.
• To provide a cost-effective processing and storage technology to curtail post-harvest losses and to achieve maximum value addition
• To provide a value addition of agricultural products, Food bioprocessing and technology, Food nutrition and dietetics, Food safety and quality and natural resource sciences in order to realize sustainable and secure livelihoods

Scope of Department

• To produce qualified Food and Nutrition professional for Food industries, Hospitals, NGO’s, International organizations, teaching and research organizations
• To establish links between Teaching / research institutions, government, commercial organizations and consumers
• To preserve, process and manipulate the agricultural crops to avoid post-harvest losses
• To protect our environmental condition from deterioration of food
• To provide consultancy and advisory services of food industries
• To provide diagnostic analysis of food products and their nutritional value
• To establish international collaboration with food science departments and food processing industries by exchanging of students & staff
• To organize function for creating awareness about the importance of safe processed nutritious food