PSM - Food Safety & Toxicology

 

The goal of the Professional Science Masters in Food Safety Program is to provide an educational opportunity for future leaders in industry and government who are assuming or desiring additional food safety responsibilities. You will find it to be an overarching trans-disciplinary, and interactive program targeting students from diverse backgrounds with previous career experience.

 

Our class size is limited and our faculty are drawn from a wide range of colleges at MSU representing agriculture, communication, human medicine, sociology, natural science and veterinary medicine.

The PSM in Food Safety is a web-based program designed for students to enhance their study of food safety. The program is offered by the College of Veterinary Medicine, the lead college for the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center (NFSTC) at MSU. The integrated multi-disciplinary program is designed for a diverse student body with assorted disciplinary interest and experience and will offer graduates professional careers at the interface of research, regulatory affairs, production, marketing, finance, and management without leaving their place of employment.

Applicants will be accepted after review by an admissions committee of faculty jointly appointed within the NFSTC. A faculty member in the NFSTC will serve as the student's academic advisor and will assist the student in planning a program of study that is related to the student's interests, professional goals, and meets the requirement of MSU's graduate programs.

Requirements:

  1. The applicant must have completed a bachelor's degree or equivalent degree from an accredited and recognized college or university. The applicant must have completed at least six credits of college level biological sciences, three of which were in microbiology. Applicants must have proven or demonstrated proficiency in written and spoken English, a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 system, submit a professional letter of intent, and two letters of recommendation.
  2. Applicants not possessing all of the requirements may be admitted to the program provisionally and permitted to make up deficiencies based upon review and approval of the program director and program curriculum committees.
  3. The student's program of study must be approved by the student's assigned academic advisor for the master of science.
  4. Maintain a grade point average of at least 3.0 in the courses that are used to satisfy the requirements for the master of science.
  5. Complete selected courses.

 

Courses

 

Contact information:

    Pattie McNiel, M.S.

    Distance Learning Program Coordinator
    National Food Safety and Toxicology Center
    165 Food Safety Building
    Michigan State University
    East Lansing, MI 48824-1302
    Phone: 517.432.3100
    Fax: 517.432.2310