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If possible go through the alumni speak section to get an idea what the alumni thinks about the institute. However, we can help you with the parameters that you can keep in mind while choosing an institute. You can consider the below parameters : 1) Faculty

2) Affiliation / Recognition

3) Course Material 

4) Quality Education

5) Fees

6) Infrastructure

7) Success Rate

8) Placement

9) Top recruiting companies.

Food engineering is a combination of Science, microbiology, and engineering education for food and related industries. Food engineering includes the application of agricultural engineering and chemical engineering principles to food materials.

The prospective major employers for food engineers include companies involved in food processing, food machinery, packaging, ingredient manufacturing, instrumentation and control. Firms that design and build food processing plants, consulting firms, government agencies, pharmaceutical, and health-care firms also hire food engineers.

Scope in India- A food technologist can get the job of a Quality Assurance Manager, Production Manager, Laboratory Supervisor, Food Packaging Manager or as a technician in food processing and packaging industry or even as a research associate in premier institutes, universities and research and development units. A post - graduate candidate in food technology can work as a lecturer or an advisor in Government Colleges, Inspection Boards or Quality Control Cells. Companies like Hindustan Lever, Heinz, Kellogs, Nestle and many others recruit food technologists periodically for bringing about an improvement in their products. A graduate in home Science, nutrition and hotel management can also fetch you good jobs in this sector.

Both the private and the public sectors provide lucrative job opportunities to food technologists. The hotel industries in particular are the leading job providers. The openings are mainly in the production and quality control departments. You can also work as food packaging technologist and food preservation managers in various food packaging industries. Hope it helps. Please feel free to revert. Wish you luck.