**Why choose this course**
- Study a research-led curriculum focused on animal health, where you can select modules tailored to your interests, including animal behaviour, animal ecology and animal nutrition.
- Access our £10 million Innovation for Health Learning Laboratory, microscopy suites and pathology laboratories, to enhance your practical skills and use equipment found in research facilities.
- Gain industry experience through our Professional Training placements, where you can work in one of our partner laboratories across the world.
- Learn from lecturers who are active researchers and apply their findings to your teaching.
- Join the 97% of our biosciences and medicine graduates who go on to employment or further study.*
**What you will study**
In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to veterinary biosciences, including biochemistry, cell biology, evolutionary origins of biodiversity, genetics, microbiology, and veterinary anatomy and physiology, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.
During your second year, you’ll get the option to learn about the pathogenesis of major human diseases, gain an understanding of endocrinology, including the role of individual hormones, delve deeper into animal evolution and comparative biology, and study animal and plant ecology.
In your third year, you’ll study animal infectious diseases, exploring the approaches to controlling these and the impact these have on human health and safety, in addition to veterinary immunology, unpicking the anatomy of various animal species and exploring their immune responses. You’ll also select four modules, exploring topics such as animal behaviour, animal diversity, epidemiology of infectious diseases and food security.
You’ll also complete a research project, bringing together all the practical, analytical, and presentation skills you’ve developed.
**Foundation year**
The Veterinary Biosciences BSc with foundation has an additional year of study designed to support your transition on to latter years of the course. You will study full-time for one year at foundation level, and after successfully completing it you will be ready to move on to the next three years of the course.
Course Details - Modules
To see the full range of modules for this course please visit our website – the link is under the Course contact details. You will also find full details of the programme, including programme structure, assessment methods, contact hours and Graduate prospects.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
D302
Institution code:
S85
Campus Name:
Stag Hill
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Foundation
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Overall:
CCD
We do not include General Studies or Critical Thinking in our offers.
Required subjects:
Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics
Overall:
BBCCC
Required subjects:
Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics
GCSE or Equivalent:
Scottish National 5: English Language and Mathematics grade C
Overall:
QAA recognised Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits overall including 18 at Distinction, 3 at Merit and and 24 at Pass
Required subjects:
Access content will be assessed by Faculty
Must include 15 level 3 credits in Science.
GCSE or Equivalent:
Inclusion of GCSE English and Mathematics equivalent within Access programme
Overall:
CCD
Required subjects:
Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics
GCSE or Equivalent:
Scottish National 5: English Language and Mathematics grade C
Applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) will receive our standard A level offer, plus an alternate offer of one A level grade lower, subject to achieving an A grade in the EPQ. The one grade reduction will not apply to any required subjects.
Overall:
MMM
Required subjects:
Please contact us to discuss suitability.
Overall:
Pass overall with CCD from a combination of the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate and two A levels. Applicants taking an A level science subject with the Science Practical Endorsement are required to pass the practical element.
Required subjects:
Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics
GCSE or Equivalent:
Inclusion of GCSE English and Mathematics equivalent within the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.5
6.5 overall with 6.0 in Writing and 5.5 in each other element
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