The Aviation College which was located in Public Teaching Building of Kunming University of Science and Technology (Chenggong Campus) was established in June 2016. The Aviation College has four majors for bachelor degree: Logistics Engineering (in the field of aviation logistics), Communication Engineering (in the field of Electronic systems and airborne equipment), Transportation (in the field of flight operation management and airport site operation management) and Mechanical Engineering (in the field of maintenance).

The College insists on the concept of running a college “Demand First, Quality First”, “Serving aviation, basing on Yunnan, facing the whole country, covering South Asia and Southeast Asia, heading for the world”, We hope to build the college into a domestic first-class aviation talents training base and create a high-level plateau aviation subject platform, we also would like to support the construction of Yunnan's “Powerful Civil Aviation Province” and Serve the National Strategy “the Belt and Road”.

The Aviation College has a wealth of educational resources, it tries to improve the quality of education and teaching guided by the concept of "Openness, Cooperation, Win-Win, and Development". The college actively builds a school-enterprise cooperation platform and has established cooperative relationships with more than 20 enterprises. In accordance with the “Academic Institute” idea, combining with the college's actual situation and the characteristics of its location, the college has actively carried out studies on the plateau aviation economy, plateau aviation transportation safety, aerial materials, aeronautical simulation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Plateau vehicle power and other aspects. The college’s first phase 12,000-square-meter laboratory building which has become an approved project is planed to construct.