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It’s the start of the school year again, and Yunnan Agricultural University has once again become a hot topic with a new major that offers students the opportunity to drink coffee in class and good employment prospects.
On September 10, students majoring in coffee at the College of Tropical Crops of Yunnan Agricultural University experienced coffee cupping in a coffee cognition class. Photo by Hu Chao
What major is so “hot”? Don’t worry, let’s take a look at how this class is taught. The teacher demonstrates “crafts and skills” such as “latte art” on the spot. In this relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, students can learn professional knowledge such as coffee variety identification, coffee bean grading, coffee bean roasting, coffee extraction and brewing.
The teacher explains coffee latte art techniques to students in the coffee awareness class. Photo by Hu Chao
How about it? Does it look tempting? This is a coffee cognition class for freshmen majoring in “Coffee Science and Engineering” at the College of Tropical Crops of Yunnan Agricultural University.
The teacher explains coffee roasting knowledge to students in the coffee awareness class. Photo by Hu Chao
The “Coffee Science and Engineering” major was established this year. It is the first “undergraduate coffee major” in China and the only one in the world. This initiative attracted the first batch of students from 11 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to start their university life in Pu’er, known as the ”Coffee Capital of China”.
The teacher is giving a coffee knowledge class to students majoring in coffee. Photo by Hu Chao
Yunnan’s unique geographical and climatic environment is very suitable for coffee production. Yunnan’s coffee planting area, output, and agricultural output value account for more than 98% of the country’s total. It is the perfect place to cultivate compound talents who understand both planting and processing, coffee culture, and innovative R&D capabilities.
Does coffee really need to cultivate undergraduate talents? According to the latest report of the coffee industry, China’s coffee industry is in a high-speed development trend. In 2023, the scale of China’s coffee industry reached 265.4 billion yuan, and it is expected to reach 313.3 billion yuan in 2024. According to the current scale, the domestic coffee secondary industry talent gap is no less than 10,000, and the tertiary industry talent gap is no less than 100,000.