Bachelor of Veterinary Science

Students will graduate with the knowledge, skills and experience to be effective practitioners in a profession where there is an increasing demand for appropriately qualified staff. 

The Veterinary Science course has been designed to train students to identify, medically and surgically treat, and prevent diseases of animals, including household pets, farm animals, zoo animals, and horses.

Aberystwyth University is the leading Welsh University in veterinary related areas with a strong research and teaching reputation in the area of animal health. The University's track record in veterinary related research spans over one hundred years, with particular expertise in livestock, such as parasitology and, with the recent establishment of the Centre of Excellence for Bovine TB, also microbiology. The new Aberystwyth School of Veterinary Science will be the first of its kind in Wales. 

This degree is being offered in partnership with the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). The RVC is the UK's largest and longest established independent veterinary school and is a Member Institution of the University of London. 

This new degree is designed to meet the growing needs for competent practitioners to work in rural mixed practices. For those students who wish, there will also be the opportunity to learn about specific areas of veterinary science in the Welsh medium during years 1 and 2.

Graduates develop an in-depth scientific knowledge that may be applied to a number of different career pathways.

These include mixed clinical practice, equine practices, farm/ livestock practices, veterinary research, veterinary public health and policy, pharmaceutical industry, food security and conservation medicine.

Additionally, having trained partially in Wales throughout the degree, graduates will be extremely well-suited to continuing their career in Welsh practices and other veterinary institutions and employers in Wales or rural practice.

If you would like to apply for undergraduate studies, you must complete an application through the general undergraduate application process using the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), unless you are applying as a North American College applicant to our Veterinary Medicine course, in which case you must apply through VMCAS (see here for further details).

Please consult undergraduate course information for individual course entry requirements. Qualifications and procedures vary depending on the course you apply for.

The RVC no longer requires any applicants to sit the Biomedical Admissions Test (BMAT) when applying to the Veterinary Medicine programme, or any other RVC course.

For any further questions regarding undergraduate courses, please contact our Admissions Office: [email protected].