BS Animal Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

The animal, dairy, and veterinary sciences degree includes all aspects of animal science, from livestock management to reproductive research and cloning.Students have many opportunities for hands-on experiences in feeding, breeding, handling, managing, and grooming animals by working with beef and dairy cattle, horses, sheep, and swine.The department has access to lab facilities and equipment allowing research in all of these areas and in studying animal reproduction, nutrition, and disease.Its Center for Integrated Biosystems has been recognized for its cloning expertise twice by Popular Science magazine.Students are able to gain research experience alongside professors in the following areas: animal health, animal nutrition, animal reproduction and development, animal breeding, cytogenetics, livestock and dairy management, molecular genetics, parasitology, toxicology, and virology.