M.Sc. Sports Nutrition & Management is an interdisciplinary course that incorporates knowledge on basic sports nutrition, sports specific nutrition, counseling techniques along with covering a thorough and systematic coverage of management theory and practice, and focuses on the basic roles, skills and functions of management, with special attention to managerial responsibility for effective and efficient achievement of goals.

Core objectives

• To acquire knowledge of sports nutrition and its practical applications.
• To optimize the selection of dietary components and create practical applications to maximize sports performance.
• To develop skills in diet counseling and designing sports food formulations.
• To acquire managerial responsibilities with special attention towards communication, business environment, human resource management and quality.

Outcomes

At the end of the course the students would be able to:

• Differentiate kinds of activities based on intensities, exercise physiology and the adaptation that occurs during sports and training.
• Appreciate the role nutrition plays in not only sustaining but increasing sport performance.
• Evaluate the effects of the plethora of diet options that exist or are being created constantly and can make better choices for the body to perform at its best.
• Understand concepts and principles of management, including the basic roles, skills, and functions of management and concepts and procedures of basics of financial reporting.
• Demonstrate a fundamental comprehension of business opportunity evaluation from the perspective of a prospective interest.