School of Food and Biological Engineering, Master program in Agricultural Products Processing was acquired in 1986, Ph.D program in Agricultural Products Processing was acquired firstly in China in 1993, and post doctoral program in Food Science and Engineering was acquired firstly in China in 1998, The first grade Doctoral program in Food Science and Engineering was acquired in 2003. The discipline was Jiangsu Provincial Key Discipline during the 9th- 11th Five-Year plans, and the cultivation Point of National Key Discipline was firstly authorized by the government of Jiangsu Province. It was a key discipline of the former National Machinery Department.The first grade provincial key discipline in Food Science and Engineering was authorized in 2010. In 2014 and 2018, the discipline was granted as the Priority Academic Discipline by Jiangsu province government respectively. The post doctoral program in Food Science and Engineering was awarded excellent grades in the evaluation of the national postdoctoral research stations in 2015 and 2020. It was acquired the B+ grade in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation and reached to till eighth. As of 2019, It ranked 51st -75th amongst the first-class disciplines according to the world university of soft subjects. Approximately 20 doctoral candidates and 150 master degree candidates are enrolled every year. And Our ranking was promoted to Class A discipline in the fifth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education; The 2023 ranking of world-class disciplines in soft science ranks sixth globally.Over 120 International graduates and post doctoral candidates are admitted. Approximately 500 graduates students are currently studying at our faculty. Our faculty has been placed amongst the top 100 National Excellent Ph.D Dissertation and nomination-8 for Excellent Ph.D dissertation and 7 for Master dissertation acquired in Jiangsu Province. Currently, the Agricultural Science supported by our discipline is ranked in the top 1% of the world’s ESI, with five other disciplines- Engineering, Materials Science, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biology and Biochemistry, that are also ranked in the top 1% of the world’s ESI. In the recent years, our discipline has won 2 second-class awards for national science and technological advancement, and over 30 prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology progress.

Our discipline adheres to the developmental concept of strengthening engineering foundation, attaching importance to the intersection of disciplines and actively promoting international cooperation and inter-relations for a long period of time. It has been created a unique name in the areas of Nondestructive Detection of Food Quality and Intelligent Equipment, Food Physical Processing and Intelligent Equipment, Food Biological Safety, Food Nutrition and Health, Food Bioengineering and Intelligent Equipment and among others.Our faculty have government funded research institutions, including: National R&D Center for Agro-processing Equipment; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Physical Processing of Agricultural Products; Jiangsu Provincial Research Center for Food Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering Technology etc, Meanwhile, our internationalized research platforms are as follows: World Food Preservation Research Center; UK-China joint Laboratory for Non-destructive detection of Agricultural products; China-US Fresh-cut Industry Research Institute; International Joint Research Centre for Food Nutrition and Safety.