The next admission date is 01.10.2026. Applications for this date can be sent from 01.10.2025 to 02.03.2026. Interviews will take place at our school in April 2026.

You need at least a secondary school leaving certificate.

Before you can start your training with us, a two-week internship in a commercial kitchen together with a dietician is desirable. Please plan this in good time and send us an indication of when and where the internship will take place, together with your application documents.

Most of the training will take place at our vocational college and lessons will be taught in German, which is why a C1 language level is recommended.

Application documents:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae in tabular form
• A certified copy of your school leaving certificate (e.g. secondary school leaving certificate 1 (Realschule), Abitur, entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences, etc.)
• Proof of professional qualifications, if applicable
• A copy of your identity card
• A general practitioner's certificate confirming your medical fitness: you should be free of infectious diseases and be physically and mentally resilient

Please send your application documents as a PDF file to

Diaetschule@mh-hannover.de

alternatively in writing to:

Hannover Medical School
School for Dieticians
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
30625 Hannover

The training at our school lasts three years.

The most important subjects taught are (excerpt):

• Dietetics
• Dietetics in theory and practice with teaching kitchen lessons
• Anatomy/physiology and biochemistry of nutrition
• Pathology and nutrition therapy
• Cooking and kitchen technology with lots of practical lessons in the training kitchen
• Organization of kitchen operations in theory and practice
• Food science with practice-oriented product knowledge
• Nutrition and dietary advice with practical assignments and exercises
• Hygiene/toxicology and legal studies

The training lasts 3 years and comprises 4450 hours.
Of these, 3050 hours are theoretical and practical lessons (see above) and 1400 hours are practical training.

The practical training:

You will complete approximately 10 internships in various fields of work and thus get to know the entire spectrum of dieticians in their everyday work.
Most of the practical training takes place at the Medical School. Around 20 dieticians work here in very different fields of activity.
The internships are carried out in the following areas of work:

• In the canteen kitchen area (dietetic care of patients)
• In diet and nutrition counseling (inpatient and outpatient counseling)
• In the MHH children's clinic (dietary advice for parents and children)
• In the nutrition team (artificial nutritional medical care)
• In the inpatient area (Center for Internal Medicine)

External internships

These are carried out in cooperation with the Klinikum Region Hannover GmbH, among others.
Private Clinical Departments such as the Health Center for Outpatient Rehabilitation in Hanover also offer the opportunity to gain practical experience.
At the request of our trainees, we also offer internships outside the region, e.g. at

• ClinicBraunschweig
• Celle General Hospital
• St. Berward Hospital and Helios Clinic Hildesheim
• Rehabilitation clinics in Lower Saxony and NRW
• Specialist diabetes practices in Hanover and the surrounding area
• Self-employed dieticians and oecotrophologists
• Also possible within the EU with the Erasmus+ program

You can expect a monthly salary of:

1st year of apprenticeship: € 1,280.74
2nd year of apprenticeship: € 1,340.80
3rd year of apprenticeship: € 1,437.53 (as at 02.2025)

You study for 38.5 hours per week.

• Start of work for lessons: 08:00
• Start of work for the training kitchen (1-2 times a week): 07:00 in the early shift/ 11:30 in the late shift
• As we are regularly involved in projects, you may also work afternoons/evenings or Saturdays
• During the internship, the working hours vary after consultation with the internship position.

You have a total of 30 vacation days per year.

• You will receive free professional clothing and safety shoes for the training kitchen area, cleaning is included
• You do not have to pay any additional fees for the teaching kitchen lessons
• You can eat in our Canteen and the numerous cafeterias on the campus at low cost at the employee rate
• You can rent a room in one of the student residences at Stadtfelddamm 66 (directly opposite) at a low rate