College of Animal Science and Food Engineering

The College of Animal Science and Food Engineering is one of the earliest departments to admit students at the inception of our university. It currently offers three undergraduate majors: Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine, and Food Science and Engineering, encompassing the entire industrial chain of modern animal husbandry, including animal breeds, feed nutrition, breeding management, disease control, and food processing. The Veterinary Medicine major is recognized as a provincial-level first-class undergraduate program.

College website:https://dkxy.jit.edu.cn

Campus Address: No. 130, XiaoZhuang Center Village, Qixia District of Nanjing

Tel/Fax: 025-85393392

mail: dkx@jit.edu.cn

Zip Code: 210038

The College of Animal Science and Food Engineering is one of the earliest departments to admit students at the inception of our university. It currently offers three undergraduate majors: Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine, and Food Science and Engineering, encompassing the entire industrial chain of modern animal husbandry, including animal breeds, feed nutrition, breeding management, disease control, and food processing. The Veterinary Medicine major is recognized as a provincial-level first-class undergraduate program.

The college is endowed with several municipal platforms and engineering centers, such as the Key Discipline in Veterinary Medicine in Nanjing, the Key Industrial College for Dairy Science and Technology, and the Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology.


The College of Animal Science and Food Engineering has 62 faculty and staff members, including 47 dedicated teachers (20 teachers with professor/associate professor titles), and 36 of them with doctoral degrees. The faculty has achieved significant results in teaching and scientific research, with accolades including two second prizes for national teaching achievements (in the vocational education category) and 13 awards from national and provincial natural science foundations.

The college is deeply dedicated to the agricultural and pastoral industry, operating with a quiet yet profound impact. It currently has 943 full-time undergraduate students enrolled. In recent years, the college has boasted a graduate employment rate exceeding 95%, a postgraduate admission rate of over 26%, and has seen the continuous emergence of exemplary entrepreneurial alumni. Consequently, the college's social reputation and satisfaction have been progressively enhanced.7人