There are a number of Institutes providing training in Tea management. The minimum qualification required to get admission in a training institute is class 10 or 10+2.  These institutes teach tea production to processing, finance, marketing and sales where tea tasting forms part of the curriculum.

Although some experts believe that tea tasting need natural talent and cannot be taught in any institute, tea tasters have to trained either on the job / or in an institute to detect tea quality by looking at the brightness (blackish or brownish), colour (like coppery or bright red), strength and body of the tea. They should be able to tell between a mellow cup and a brisk cup, able to distinguish tea from each specific region from their flavour, be able to sniff a smoke tint in the tea, and examine the evenness, colour or brightness of dry / infused leafs to know the strength and body of the tea. They have to be trained to make their palates proficient enough to register even the minute differences.

• Assam Agricultural University,
  Department of Tea Husbandry and Technology, Jorhat, Assam (B.Sc & M.Sc Agriculture Course)
  website : http://www.aau.ac.in/index.htm
• Indian Institute of Plantation Management,
  Jnana Bharathi Campus, P.0 Malathalli, Bangalore-560056
  Phone :91-80-3211716,
  E-mail : Contact Us ,
  Website: www.iipmb.com
• Dipras Institute of Professional Studies,
  23/28 Gariahat Road, Kolkata-700029
  Phone : 033-24600743/ 65458717
  E-mail : Contact Us ,
  Website: www.dipsschoolofmanagement.com
• NITM, Darjeeling Tea Research and Management Association
  P.O Kadamtala-734433, Dist. Darjeeling, West Bengal
  Phone : 0353-2581582, Fax : 0353-2581593
• Assam Darjeeling Tea Research Centre,
  Kurseong, Darjeeling-734203(West Bengal)
• UPASI Tea Research Institute,
  Nirar Dam BPO, Valparai-642127 (Tamil Nadu)
• Birla Institute of Futuristic Studies,
  17A Darga Road, Park Circus, Kolkata-700017
• The Tea Tasters Academy,
  Coonoor, Nilgiris (Kerala)