Major name: Food Processing Technology

Level: Junior college

Category of discipline: Food industries (Foods, Drugs and Grains)

Admission requirements: A regular high-school, vocational high-school, technical-school or secondary-professional school diploma.

Objectives: This major aims to produce graduates with high levels of skill and political integrity, who are developed in an all-round way; who have high levels of ideological and political consciousness, and are ethical and humane; who understand and are able to undertake food production and processing, technical management, quality control, product development, and so on.

Time: 2 years full-time, 8 years part-time, with a minimum length of study of 2.5 years.

Forms of study: Open education

Total class hours and credits: 1,404 class hours, 78 credits

Main courses: Food Nutrition and Safety, Food-factory Design and Equipment, Quality Management for Agricultural Products, Basics of Microbiology, Rural Economic Management, Storage and Processing of Agricultural Products, Garden-product Storage Technology, Garden-product Processing Technology, Livestock-product Processing Technology, Production Management, Entrepreneurial Design, Food Additives, and others.