The Food College of Nanchang University originated from the Department of Food Engineering of Jiangxi University of Technology and the Department of Food Science of Jiangxi University. In 1987, Jiangxi University of Technology established the "Food Industry College", when the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee Chen Yun was the title of the college. In 1993, Jiangxi University and Jiangxi University of Technology merged to form Nanchang University. The former College of Food Industry of Jiangxi University of Technology merged with the former Department of Food Science of Jiangxi University to form the College of Food Industry of Nanchang University. In 1994, it was reorganized with the Department of Biological Science and Engineering to be the life science of Nanchang University. School of Food Engineering. In 2014, due to the development of the discipline, the Food Institute was established.

The university has the national key disciplines of food science (two in the province), the key construction disciplines of the “211” project, and the key disciplines of Jiangxi Province. It has the only national key laboratory in the field of food science in China's universities, and has national bio-efficient conversion technology for agricultural products. The Joint Engineering Research Center and the Engineering Research Center of the Biomass Conversion Ministry of Education are also supported by the Sino-German Joint Research Institute, the Sino-German Food Engineering Center, and the Jiangxi Provincial Agricultural Products Fine Processing Collaborative Innovation Center (currently, there are national key laboratories and national projects at the same time. The center's dual-platform layout is only two in colleges and universities). In 2017, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the “China-Canada Joint Laboratory for Food Science and Technology (Nanchang)” project, and we have added a national-level international cooperation research platform.

In the fourth round of national assessments announced in December 2017, Nanchang University's food science and engineering discipline (0832) leapt to the third in the food discipline nationwide, becoming the first discipline in Jiangxi Province to enter the top three disciplines in the country. The only discipline in the province that has been awarded the A-level; in 2017, the Food Science, Technology, and Health disciplines of the Food Institute was selected as the “Nanchang University World-class Discipline Leadership Program”; in October 2017, US News and World Report (USNews & World Report) ""US News Best Global Universities", Nanchang University's agricultural sciences (food-based) ranked 48th in the world; in addition, according to the US ESI (Essential Science Indicators, basic science) According to the data released by the indicator library, in January 2018, the agricultural science discipline of Nanchang University (mainly food-based) entered the ESI global ranking of 2.7‰. It marks that the food discipline of our hospital has entered the ranks of international high-level disciplines and is steadily advancing towards the world-class disciplines!

The school has one post-doctoral research station for food science and engineering; one doctoral degree in food science and engineering, and nine doctoral programs in food nutrition and hygiene. There are 1 degree authorization point, 6 academic master's degree authorization points in the second-level disciplines, and 3 professional degree master's degree authorization points. In addition, there are also college teachers who are working on the master's degree and the incumbent to apply for the master's degree. In the "2014 China University Graduate Education Evaluation Report", our food science and engineering discipline was rated as "five-star discipline", becoming the only "China's first-class graduate discipline" in Jiangxi Province in 2014. It has good reputation, social influence, reputation and strong competitiveness in the whole province and even the whole country.

The college has 114 full-time teachers, including 47 professors, 45 associate professors, 86 doctors with a doctoral degree (accounting for 75.4%), and 66 overseas students over the past year, accounting for 57.9%. He holds a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science, a member of the Discipline Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Committee of Agriculture and Forestry, a leader of the 10,000 plan, a leader of the national key discipline, a national key project for the new century, and a national elite. Thousands, the Ministry of Education, the new century outstanding talents, the State Council special allowance experts, the national outstanding contributions of young and middle-aged experts, the national outstanding scientific and technological workers, as well as Jiangxi Province's 100 million talent project candidates, Jinggang scholars, Yan Yingcai 555 engineering candidates, university disciplines A group of leading talents such as academic leaders and teaching masters, Jiangxi's first batch of superior technology innovation teams and university teaching teams, was approved as the first Yangtze River Scholar Innovation Team in the domestic food discipline, and the food allergy innovation team was selected as the key innovation in the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2017. team.

In the past five years, the college has undertaken 178 national research projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program, the 973 Program, the 863 Program, the National Science and Technology Support Program, and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Project, including 144 National Natural Science Fund projects, National Natural Science Foundation and National Outstanding Youth. Each fund project has a research fund of 290 million yuan. He won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of provincial and ministerial level in Jiangxi Province, and the first prize of 14 provincial and ministerial level scientific research achievements; authorized 298 invention patents; published 1509 papers, including SCI 746 papers. Among them, 27 high-cited papers from ESI accounted for 44.26% of the total number of papers cited by Nanchang University (highly cited papers are updated every two months, with data from November 2017 as an example, 61 papers from Nanchang University). . At the same time, it has cooperated with well-known enterprises such as Nestle, COFCO, Yili, Jiangzhong, Huangshanghuang and Sunshine to carry out industry-university-research cooperation, and a number of scientific research achievements have achieved industrialization, making important contributions in serving the country and Jiangxi's economic construction.

The internationalization of the college has achieved remarkable results. It has cooperated well with scientific research institutes in Germany, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore. Among them, Sino-German cooperation has been praised as an outstanding example of Sino-German technical cooperation. Hosting high-level academic conferences at home and abroad; actively expanding international cooperation and training talent channels, among which “China-Canada International Science and Technology Cooperation Food Talent Training Project” was selected as the “Innovative Talent International Cooperation Training Project” (the only one in the province) in 2016, and was awarded in 2015. Approved the national "International Science and Technology Cooperation Base". At the same time, each year, 5 to 6 students from Singapore's Temasek Institute of Technology will be exchanged for a half-year study exchange; and the University of Korea's Matsusaka University and Japan's Okayama Prefectural University will jointly organize summer university student exchange activities.

The College consists of the Department of Food Science and Engineering, the Department of Food Nutrition and Safety, and the Department of Food Fermentation and Bioengineering. It has three undergraduate majors in food science and engineering, food quality and safety, and bioengineering. The food science and engineering majors have been approved at the national level. Featured professional and provincial brand majors are included in the Ministry of Education's first “excellence plan”. There are 1489 full-time students, including 109 doctoral students, 435 master students, and 945 undergraduates.

The school focuses on building world-class disciplines, aims at talent cultivation, promotes teaching through scientific research, promotes scientific research through teaching, and focuses on cultivating students' scientific research consciousness and ability. In recent years, it has won the second prize of national teaching achievements and the provincial teaching achievement award. 6 items; 23 outstanding doctoral dissertations in Jiangxi Province (accounting for 36.5% of the whole school, 22.33% of the whole province) 23 outstanding master's thesis articles in Jiangxi Province; in 2012, won the national 100 excellent doctoral dissertations and realized the national excellent Yubo in Jiangxi The breakthrough has provided a large number of professional talents for the country's training and has become an important base for the cultivation of high-level talents in this field in China.

The students won the national prizes such as “Pan Pan Cup” and “Challenge Cup” and won the National Silver Award in the 3rd “Internet +” Competition in 2017. The alumni have set up “Wu Hua Scholarship” and “Duomei Taikang”. Scholarships, "Green Yexuan" scholarships, etc. The employment situation of graduates is good. In the past five years, the admission rate of undergraduate students (insurance) has exceeded 30%, and the employment rate of graduates has exceeded 90%.

The college has won the "Advanced Collective of Teacher's Moral Construction in Jiangxi Province", "Advanced Collective of Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities in Jiangxi Province", "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization of Education System in Jiangxi Province", "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization in Jiangxi Province", and "National Pioneering Priority is given to the grassroots party organizations and other honors. The Jiangxi Daily, the Communist Party of China News Network, People's Daily, and CCTV have successively reported on the party building work of the college.