College of Tobacco Science is one of the units that started tobacco teaching and scientific research earlier in Yunnan Agricultural University in China. Since Professor Xu Tianliu, who studied in France as a doctor and the founder of Yunyan before liberation, the older generation of educators from the 1940s to 1980s, they have attached great importance to the construction and development of tobacco discipline such as Luo Pengtao, Peng Guifen and Cheng huidou in Yunnan Agricultural University, The course of tobacco cultivation in crop science was successively opened in the former college of Yunnan agriculture University, later Kunming College of agriculture and forestry and Yunnan Agricultural University. Since 1986, we began to recruit undergraduate students majoring in tobacco; In 1987, we began to relying on the master's program of crop cultivation to recruit master's students in the direction of tobacco. With the approval of Yunnan Provincial People's Government in 1996, the Tobacco Planting Technology College of Yunnan Agricultural University was established on July 10, 1997; It was renamed college of tobacco science in May 2001.

The college has formed a three-level tobacco professional training system of undergraduate, master and doctor. Tobacco specialty is a first-class specialty in Yunnan Province, with key specialty, characteristic specialty and comprehensive pilot specialty of specialty reform. Tobacco science is a master's program of secondary discipline. Relying on the doctoral program of Crop Genetics and breeding, the university recruits doctoral students in crop variety and ecology. At present, there are 823 full-time undergraduate students and 85 full-time and part-time postgraduates. The college has two academician workstations such as Yunnan Tobacco Science and engineering experimental teaching center and Yunnan tobacco industry postgraduate joint training and innovation base. The National off campus practical education base for college students, and 15 off campus practical teaching bases in cooperation with tobacco and other enterprises.

The college has 42 forty-two faculty members, including 7 professors, sixteen associate senior titles and seventeen doctoral degree holders; There are 3 doctoral tutors, 24 master tutors, 2 famous teachers in Yunling, 1 famous teacher in the special support plan for high-level talents in Yunnan Province, 2 famous teachers in Colleges and universities in Yunnan Province, 4 young and middle-aged academic leaders and reserve talents in Yunnan Province, 1 famous teacher in Ideological and political teaching of Provincial courses, 1 ideological and political demonstration course of provincial courses, 1 ideological and political demonstration team of provincial courses, 1 provincial virtual teaching and Research Office There are 2 provincial teaching teams and ten provincial special awards for teaching achievements. At present, more than thirty national natural science foundation projects and tobacco projects at all levels inside and outside the province are under research. The research results in green and high-quality tobacco production, ecological environment protection in tobacco areas, cigarette flavoring and moisturizing have been recognized and applied by tobacco enterprises, more than thirty patents have been authorized, and more than 10 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards have been successively awarded by the National Tobacco Corporation and the people's Government of Yunnan Province, There are more than thirty awards for scientific and technological achievements of provincial tobacco enterprises such as Yunnan tobacco company and Yunnan China Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd.

Over the years, the college has adhered to the position of teaching center, actively promoted teaching reform and made great efforts to improve the quality of talent training. A talent training system of "four stages of theoretical learning and four stages of practical training" has been formed. The professional core course tobacco cultivation is an excellent course in Yunnan Province, a national excellent course and a national excellent resource sharing course. The practical teaching base, practical teaching mode and professional construction achievements of tobacco specialty won the first prize of teaching achievements in Yunnan Province in 2001 and 2009; The National Excellent Course Construction of tobacco cultivation won the second prize of teaching achievement in Yunnan Province. At present, more than 70% of the middle-level and above technicians and more than 50% of the middle-level management backbone of the tobacco industry in Yunnan Province have graduated from our university.