Postgraduates majoring in food science in Jiangnan University are mainly employed in food production and processing enterprises, product production and processing enterprises with animal and plant products as raw materials, and relevant state organs, universities, scientific research institutes, customs, commodity inspection, commercial companies, quality supervision, health and epidemic prevention, environmental protection, intellectual property protection and other departments. The school has established a regular cooperative relationship between supply and demand of graduates with more than 200 famous domestic food enterprises and institutions.

College of Food Science of Jiangnan University (formerly Wuxi University of Light Industry) is one of the most famous universities in China's food industry, with national key disciplines and national "2 1 1 engineering" key construction disciplines. The college has 7 doctoral programs, 8 master programs and postdoctoral mobile stations in food science and engineering.