Vocational Programs for Food Science Technicians Career

Total Employees	Hourly Wage	Annual Wage
15K	$25.96	$54,000

The role of Food Science Technicians is to work with food scientists or technologists to perform standardized qualitative and quantitative tests to determine physical or chemical properties of food or beverage products The average annual wage of the occupations is $54,000 and $26 per hour. 10 vocational programs could be taken for the Food Science Technicians career. Based on BLS data, a total of 15,190 employees were employed in the Occupation.

Vocational Programs to Prepare Food Science Technicians Career

The following 10 vocational programs are required or helpful to prepare Food Science Technicians.

The tuition, program length, and completion time program information is average amounts over all schools that offer each program. This information is only for vocational programs (i.e. certificate programs) and not for bachelor's or graduate degrees.

2024 Average Tuition and Completion Information for Preparing Food Science Technicians
Program Name	Number of Schools	Tuition & Fees	Books & Supplies	Program Lengths	Avg. Completion Time
Agricultural and Food Products Processing	13	-	-	-	-
Food Science	12	-	-	-	-
Food Technology and Processing	10	-	-	-	-
Brewing Science	14	-	-	-	-
Zymology/Fermentation Science	1	-	-	-	-
Food Science and Technology (other)	4	-	-	-	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	29	-	-	541 Hours	22.00 Months
Biochemistry	2	-	-	-	-
Microbiology	1	-	-	-	-
Chemistry	20	-	-	-	-

Schools offering voational programs for Food Science Technicians

The following 91 schools offer the vocational programs and courses for preparing Food Science Technicians. The list includes some 4-year colleges that have certificate or associate programs for the career.