Graduates of the Master’s Program in Food Development and Innovation at Universidad de Las Américas are professionals with a holistic, systemic, and innovative approach, positioning them as key contributors to the development of new food products. Graduates demonstrate a strong commitment to society by creating foods that, beyond their nutritional characteristics, are specifically designed to support health and reduce the risk of disease.
Furthermore, graduates design food component combinations in creative ways to enhance their functional effects on consumer health, in accordance with current regulations. Graduates understand and critically analyze the impact of food components at the genetic level to achieve specific outcomes related to health and well-being. In addition, graduates possess knowledge of economic management procedures for innovation and production projects, grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks. Graduates also develop marketing and communication strategies to effectively convey the health benefits of food innovations. Graduates apply new processing, preservation, and packaging technologies to produce innovative, eco-friendly, and high-quality food products.
Ultimately, graduates are expected to carry out their professional responsibilities with creativity, proactivity, innovation, responsibility, and ethical commitment in the development of food products with functional properties that contribute to public health.
Demographic Data - provides information about student enrollment disaggregated by gender and ethnicity, offering insight into the demographic diversity within the program.
Student Completion - provides information about graduation rates and graduation rates disaggregated by gender calculated through the 2021–2022 academic year, based on cohorts of new, first-time students, regardless of enrollment in the program's daytime or evening instructional delivery (if applicable).
All programs utilize the Brightspace platform to collect and assess student work and to compile data and evidence of student achievement. The resulting outcomes and their analysis, which focus on identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent assessment period for each Program Learning Outcome (PLO) is indicated, along with the percentage representing the level of achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, based on the rubric used to evaluate student work.
Note: Multiple descriptions per PLO code reflect updates over time. All versions are shown to support historical and comparative analysis.