Diploma in Nutrition and Food Service Management is a diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics programme offered by Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
The programme combines food service administration with health care, teaching students to apply nutritional care principles while managing a food service department. Coursework covers accounting principles, human resource and financial management, menu planning and design, a culinary skills lab, medical nutrition therapy, food service operations, safety and sanitation, and nutrition counselling. The four-semester structure ends with a six-week supervised field placement in a health care setting. Graduates are prepared to plan menus for diverse nutritional, medical, cultural and religious needs, supervise food handling and service for regulatory compliance, contribute to budgeting and procurement, and take part in staff scheduling, training and interprofessional care teams.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: An OSSD or equivalent, or mature-student status at 19 or older, with Grade 12 English (C or U), or Centennial's English Admission Test; and Grade 11 Mathematics (M or U) or Grade 12 Mathematics (C or U), or Centennial's Math Skills Assessment for Admission, each at the stated minimum grade. English language proficiency is required. Before each field placement you need a clear police check with vulnerable sector screening issued within six months of the placement start date, CPR at Health Care Provider level completed and renewed annually, a recognised standard first aid course, mask fit testing provided by the College, and a pre-clearance health form completed by a physician or nurse practitioner. Morningside Campus, with September, January and May starts.
Application Details
Start Date:September, January and May
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
