Student review [#20074] for Agricultural Science
at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia - UPV

In the 2020-2021 academic year, I took the university master’s degree in quality management and food safety. I must say that this master was taught mainly online, since we only went to the university for exams and some laboratory practice. In this sense, I can say that the UPV has sufficient means to face another similar situation, so the pandemic practically did not alter the study plan.

Focusing on the master, something that I did not like very much is that there are many subjects, since these are worth few credits. This forces you to take quite a few subjects, making you take some that don’t interest you and making others shorter in which, from my point of view, it would be necessary to delve more deeply, such as those dedicated to quality management systems and food safety volunteers. In any case, the basic subjects of the master’s degree are studied in-depth, such as those for the HACCP system, which is also very enjoyable thanks to the teachers who teach it.

I would like to emphasize that this master’s degree has an internship subject, which can be done in companies or focused on research, as it could be in the UPV laboratories. In addition, it has a series of credits to carry out extracurricular internships, so this master’s degree really helps you get closer to the world of work, making it possible to get a job in the company where you do the internship.