UCC launches new MSc in Dairy Process Technology with Kerry Group

Programme will be offered part-time over two yeas 

Professor Mairead Kiely, Head of the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, UCC; Mary Buckley, Communications Manager for Kerry Group’s dairy business; Pat Murphy, CEO of Kerry Group’s dairy business; Professor John O’Halloran, Interim President, UCC; Jim Corbett, Food Institute UCC Director; and Dr Seamus O’Mahony, Academic Programme Director, UCC. Picture: Tomas Tyner, UCC.

UCC has launched a new employment-based Masters Degree programme in Dairy Process Technology in partnership with Kerry Group.

The new two-year part-time master’s degree was developed by Dr Seamus O’Mahony and will provide students with an opportunity to complete an MSc in Dairy Process Technology at UCC while working across Kerry Group’s dairy processing sites in Listowel, Charleville and Newmarket.