This major has a four-year length of schooling with an engineering degree.

Features: It is a major with unique features of Yunnan Province, which has gained the accreditation by CEEAA and has been listed into provincial first-class undergraduate programs.

Objective: Focusing on biological resources and biomedical and health industry, it aims to develop engineering and technical talents with engineering technology and bioengineering expertise, good humanities and scientific literacy, social responsibilities, enough understanding of law and innovative consciousness, practical abilities of development, implementation, production operation and management of bioengineering techniques, and ability to solve complex engineering problems.

Main courses: Biochemistry, microbiology, genetic engineering, fermentation engineering, biological reaction engineering, biological separation engineering, and bioengineering equipment.

Job prospects: Students that major in Bioengineering can be engaged in basic research, teaching, product research and development, technology development, process design, quality control and management in scientific research institutions, schools, biological testing institutions and biotechnology enterprises related to biological resource development, and biomedical and health industry. In the past three years, the employment rate of students of this major has topped 95%, and their enrollment rate via postgraduate entrance examinations comes out top in KUST.