【History】The College of Food Science and Engineering in the Jiangxi Agricultural University has a history dating back to 1986 which originated from the major of Agricultural and Livestock Products Processing. Today, the college has two undergraduate majors in Food Science and Engineering and Food Quality and Safety, one first-level discipline point in Food Science and Engineering, three second-level master's points in Food Science, Agricultural Products Processing and Storage Engineering, Food Nutrition and Safety, and the right to confer professional degrees in Food Processing and Safety. In 2019, it was awarded the second-level doctoral degree authorization point for Safe Production and Processing Engineering of Livestock Products. The major of Food Science and Engineering is the key construction major of the university, which was awarded as the brand major of Jiangxi Province in 2002 and the special major of Jiangxi Province in 2008, and was selected as one of the special major construction points of national higher education institutions by the Ministry of Education in March 2008. The major of Food Science and Engineering is also one of the key disciplines of the 12th Five-Year Plan and the 13th Five-Year Plan of Jiangxi Higher Education Institution. In 2019, the major of Food Science and Engineering was selected as a national first-class professional construction point, and in 2022, it passed the professional certification of engineering education in China, and in 2022, the major of Food Quality and Safety was selected as a provincial first-class professional construction point.

【Faculty】The college currently hosts 64 faculty members and 44 of them have doctoral degrees and 15 have master's degrees, besides, 18 of which have a senior title and 21 have a deputy senior title. Among our faculty members, 2 were honored with “Jiangxi Double Thousand Program”, 3 were honored with “Jiangxi academic and technical leaders of major disciplines”, 1 was honored with “Jiangxi 100 million talents”, 1 was honored with “Jiangxi Jinggang Scholar Specially Appointed Professor”, 1 was honored with “Jiangxi Double High Project talent”, 3 were honored with “Jiangxi Jieqing”, 1 was honored with “Jiangxi young scientist training object”, 1 was honored with “Jiangxi young Jinggang scholar” and 4 were honored with “Jiangxi agricultural industry system post experts”.

【College Scale】The College of Food Science and Engineering recruits students from more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, currently, our college enrolls 543 undergraduate students, and since it was established, there are more than 3000 graduates. Over the past three years, the proportion of graduates entering higher education has been maintained at more than 50%, and the employment rate has been among the top-ranking of the school for many years. In 2022, the rate of initial employment and the rate of graduates entering higher education is 86.6% and 50.6% respectively. The main employment destinations of graduates are civil servants, master's degree students and employees of the food industry and related enterprises. At present, the number of postgraduates has increased to 182 with 1.8 papers published per capita, 18 of which were awarded the provincial postgraduate innovation fund project, 14 were awarded the excellent thesis of the university, more than 10 were awarded the excellent master's thesis of the province, and the selection rate of excellent master's thesis was 100%, as well as more than 30 of which were offered admission to Ph.D. program of Zhejiang University, China Agricultural University, South China University of Technology, Jiangnan University through application and examination. Graduates always have solid theoretical foundation, strong practical ability and strong competitive ability in employment, most of them have become backbones of production technology and middle/senior managements in the food industry and food-related enterprises.

【Conditions】Our college has laboratories with a construction area of nearly 7000 m², including Jiangxi Agricultural Products Storage and Processing Engineering Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Jiangxi Natural Products and Functional Foods Key Laboratory, Jiangxi Agricultural Products Processing and Safety Control Engineering Laboratory and Nanchang Agricultural Products Processing and Quality Control Key Laboratory. It has a well-functioning virtual simulation laboratory and sensory evaluation laboratory, with instruments and equipment worth more than 30 million CNY. Large-scale collaborative projects have been conducted with many companies and public institutions, including the Food and Drug Administration of Jiangxi Province, the Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Jiangxi Province, etc. We have more than 40 off-campus practical training bases and 3 on-campus practical training bases.

【Scientific Research Achievements】The College of Food Science and Engineering is dedicated to high-quality student training, scientific research and development of science and technology, it has established a teaching and research team led by provincial-level discipline leaders, featuring broad research areas, reasonable talent echelon structure, outstanding teaching achievements,  obvious characteristics of schooling, unity and dedication. Over the past 5 years, we have obtained more than 50 national scientific research projects and more than 150 provincial and ministerial projects, received total funding of more than 50 million CNY for various projects, and published more than 600 academic papers, including more than 100 SCI papers in top journals, as well as won 1 second-class prize and 5 third-class prizes for Scientific and Technology Progress of Jiangxi Province, won 7 second-class and third-class prizes for Scientific and Technology Achievements of Jiangxi University, obtained 24 national invention patents, and transferred 14 scientific research achievements.

【Teaching Research】The project of “Exploration of “Breaking Walls, Cross-border Integration” Food+ Engineering Talent Cultivation Mode” and the project of "Exploration and Practice of Industry-Teaching Integration and School-Enterprise Collaborative Education Mechanism for Food Specialties in Local Agricultural Colleges and Universities" were awarded the first and second batches of New Engineering Research and Practice Construction Projects issued by the Ministry of Education respectively, and our college undertook the project of "Excellent Engineer" training program of Jiangxi Provincial Education Department. The courses of Animal Products Processing, Fruit and Vegetable Processing, Food Analysis and Testing Technology, Food Biochemistry, Food Chemistry, Chemical Principle (Upper) and Food Additives are the first-class courses in Jiangxi Province. Over the past five years, our college has hosted more than 30 provincial teaching research projects and more than 60 school-level teaching research projects, and won the first batch of New Engineering Construction Projects of the Ministry of Education. Besides, it has won 6 school-level teaching achievement awards and more than 10 first-class and second-class prizes in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions above the provincial level.

【Science and Technology Services】Relying on the teaching and research platform of the discipline, the college strives to promote enterprise services and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, breaking through the challenges in food processing, safety testing technology and food-related fields. It has provided more than 50 patents and technical achievements for the industry through patent licensing and technology transfer, and developed more than 100 new products and solutions to key technical problems for enterprises. Meanwhile, our faculty members also carry out industry-academia-research cooperations with relevant enterprises through post experts, science and technology missionaries and other ways, aiming to help enterprises solve production problems effectively, to help the development of potatoes, fruits and vegetables, eggs, aquatic products and other industries in Jiangxi Province.

【Academic exchange】 The College of Food Science and Engineering places considerable value

on foreign exchange and cooperation. Long-term collaborative scientific research projects talent training projects have been conducted with both domestic and foreign research institutes, including the University of Longston (USA), the University of Guelph (Canada), the University of Leeds (UK), the China Agricultural University, the Huazhong Agricultural University, the Nanchang University, the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, etc. Experts and scholars from a dozen countries and regions have visited the college and conducted academic exchanges. At the same time, we have sent many people abroad for study and academic visits, which has promoted the development of teaching and scientific research.