Because the plant protection major belongs to agronomy, the proportion of students is mainly science students, with few liberal arts, and science majors are more inclined to mathematics.

Plant protection is a first-class discipline of agronomy and a traditional dominant specialty in the field of life science. Based on plant pathology, general entomology, botany, zoology, microbiology, agroecology, soil science, cultivation science, weed science and information science, it studies the occurrence and development law of pests and puts forward comprehensive management techniques, which are divided into plant pathology, agricultural pest control and pesticide science.