Specialty Features The specialty of food science and engineering in China Agricultural University is a national key discipline.
This major adopts two-stage training scheme. In the basic stage, a completely consistent teaching plan is adopted; After entering the professional stage, it is divided into four professional directions: fruit and vegetable and beverage processing technology, livestock and poultry and aquatic products processing technology, grain, oil and food processing technology and food engineering.
Graduates work in food manufacturing and processing enterprises, products manufacturing and processing enterprises with animal and plant products as raw materials, and relevant state organs, universities, research institutes, customs, commodity inspection, commercial companies, quality supervision, health and epidemic prevention, environmental protection, intellectual property protection and other departments.
Those with excellent grades can be recommended to study for graduate students without examination, and some of them can go abroad for further study.
2. Jiangnan University
Professional Features The Food College of Jiangnan University (formerly Wuxi Institute of Light Industry) is one of the most famous universities in China's food industry. It has national key disciplines and national "2 1 1 engineering" key disciplines.
The college has 7 doctoral programs, 8 master programs and postdoctoral mobile stations in food science and engineering.
Undergraduate students practice tutorial system. Through the double selection of teachers and students, students can have 1 tutor for professional guidance from the second grade. Implement elite education and set up pilot classes. Those with excellent academic performance are exempt from taking the test to study for a master's degree.
Graduates go to college, and have established regular cooperative relations between supply and demand of graduates with more than 200 famous domestic food enterprises and institutions.
The supply of graduates and the demand for enterprise recruitment are 1∶5. Students implement unit area, and 85% are in large and medium-sized cities along the southeast coast. Nearly 40% of the 2003 undergraduate graduates are employed in Shanghai.
3. Nanchang University
Specialty Features The food science and engineering discipline of Nanchang University has the national key discipline, the key laboratory of food science of the Ministry of Education and the key laboratory of food biotechnology of Jiangxi Province. It is a national key construction discipline of "2 1 1 engineering" of Nanchang University and a key discipline of universities in Jiangxi Province.
The development of this discipline is characterized by strong international cooperation and exchange. Its Jiangxi Sino-German Joint Research Institute and Jiangxi Nanda Sino-German Food Engineering Center are scientific and technological cooperation projects between the Chinese and German governments.
This subject has formed its own characteristics in the development and utilization of food resources, food chemistry and nutrition, food biotechnology, food processing and storage.
In the past five years, he has undertaken 7 national natural science foundation projects, 9 national projects and 69 provincial and ministerial projects, and won the first prize of national scientific and technological progress, the second prize of national teaching achievement, 7 provincial and ministerial awards and invention patents.
The employment rate of graduates to undergraduates is 92%, and the proportion of undergraduates taking master's degree is 18%. Master students and doctoral students are in short supply.
4. Shanghai Jiaotong University
Food science and engineering with professional characteristics is an interdisciplinary subject involving biology, chemistry, physics, electromechanical and chemical engineering.
Since 2003, the College of Agriculture and Biology began to recruit students majoring in biotechnology and environmental ecology. At the end of the second academic year, according to the students' achievements, personal aspirations and social needs in the previous two academic years, etc. They can choose a major among the majors affiliated to the college under the condition of individual application and approval of the college. At the end of the first academic year, some excellent students can re-select their majors across colleges.