Dear Aspirant, to get a job of food technologist, you should have a degree in Food technology or food science. Now the degrees for a food technologist also differs as Bachelor then Master degree and finally a doctoral degree.
The bachelor degree will definitely let you have an entry into an organization, but with a masters degree you will have more and better opportunities and with a doctoral degree you will have much much better job prospectus. Basically the Food Technology is a broad term, it includes Dairy technology, meat technology and other food technology.
There are many universities in India and abroad which offers courses in Food technology and Food sciences.
1. National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Sonipat, Haryana, here you will have the opportunities to study: Technology of Animal Foods, Technology of Plant Foods, Nutrition, Food Enterprise Incubator, Food Testing and Toxicology, Food Engineering, Bio-Process Engineering, Food Microbiology. In this institute you can get a bachelor, masters and doctoral degree.
2. Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore. This is very old and reputed laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR). The courses offered are: Fermentation technology and bioengineering, Biochemistry and nutrition, food engineering, food microbiology, fruit and vegetable technology, meat and marine sciences, flour milling, bakinga nd confectionery technology, food packaging technology, food safely and analytical quality control laboratories, molecular nutrition etc.
3. Haldia Institute of Technology, west bangal
4. Harcourt Butler technological Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
5. University of Delhi, New dselhi,
6. University of Mumbai, Mumbai
7. Osmania University, Hyderabad.