Yunnan Agricultural University is located in Kunming, the spring city. It is the first batch of pilot universities in China to reform the education and training plan for outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry and the education and training plan for outstanding engineers, and the second batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. The school further adjusted and optimized the professional structure, and gradually built a discipline professional framework with agricultural science as the advantage, in which agriculture, engineering, economics, management, science, literature, law and teaching permeated, supported and coordinated with each other.
There are 79 undergraduate majors, including 6 national majors, 7 provincial majors, 8 provincial key construction majors and 2 Chinese-foreign cooperative education majors. There are seven professional degree categories: master of agriculture, master of veterinary medicine, master of engineering, master of translation, master of physical education, master of landscape architecture and master of social work.
Yunnan Agricultural University's ace disciplines are biotechnology, agronomy, horticulture, tea science, zoology and plant protection.
Provincial and ministerial key disciplines: agricultural resources utilization, agricultural water and soil engineering, animal husbandry, plant pathology, crop genetics and breeding, animal food science, agricultural economic management, agricultural pest control, environmental science and engineering, agricultural resources utilization, plant nutrition, gardening, etc.
Provincial specialties: agronomy, food quality and safety, bee science, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, agricultural mechanization and automation, etc.
Provincial key construction majors: biotechnology, plant protection, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, animal science, agricultural resources and environment, etc.