The Department of Food Processing Technology (FPT) at Tezpur University is one of the five constituent departments under the School of  Engineering was established in 2006 with a view to create trained and skilled human resources to cater to the needs of the rapidly growing food processing sector. The department is currently offering M.Tech. and Ph. D. programmes and was started in 2006 by offering M.Sc. programme in FPT. The department is offering B. Tech. programme in Food Engineering & Technology from the session 2010-11. The programmes aim at providing the students both with skills and knowledge to succeed as professionals and entrepreneurs. Tezpur University is the only University  in North-East India to offer such programmes.