Program Overview

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Facilities

You’ll benefit from hands-on learning in our £12.5 million

Innovation for Health Learning Laboratory

, where TV screens are used to show you how to conduct experiments and follow scientific protocols. You’ll also use our

Veterinary Pathology Centre

, home to our microscopy suites and pathology laboratories.

Our facilities are fitted with the latest industry equipment, that you’ll use to carry out a full range of experiments. You’ll complete your first experiment within your first two weeks.

You’ll familiarise yourself with veterinary biosciences methodology and develop the practical laboratory experience that’s essential in a research career and valued by a wide range of employers.

In your final year, depending on your research project, you may also get to our dissertation laboratory.

Watch our

School of Biosciences and Medicine tour

and

School of Veterinary Medicine tour

to look around our state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities.

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Teaching staff

We have a research-led focus to our teaching, ensuring everything you learn is up-to-date and relevant to employers. You’ll be taught by

lecturers

who are active researchers within their respective fields. These may include:

Dr Jorge Gutierrez-Merino

, an expert in the use of probiotics against infectious diseases and inflammatory disorders

Dr Teresa Hollands

, an expert in animal nutrition

Dr Nick Selemetas

, an expert in epidemiology and veterinary parasitology.

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Professional recognition

BSc (Hons) - Royal Society of Biology

Accredited by the Royal Society of Biology for the purpose of meeting, in part, the academic and experience requirement of membership and Chartered Biologist (CBiol).

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Careers and graduate prospects

We offer

careers information, advice and guidance

to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.

This course will prepare you for a wide range of careers in:

Animal health and disease

Animal nutrition

Biological sciences

Ecology and conservation

Public health

Veterinary research.

97% of our biosciences and medicine graduates go on to employment or further study.* Typical roles include:

Animal health officers

Laboratory managers

Research scientists.

Our alumni can be found in hospital, academic and industrial research laboratories around the world, with recent graduates working for:

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)

Heathrow Animal Reception Centre

Sainsbury’s

NHS

The Pirbright Institute

Public Health England.

With the critical thinking, analysis, problem solving, decision-making, and communication skills learnt throughout the course, several graduates have sought alternative careers in management and consultancy.

Many students also use this course to apply for further study, including postgraduate research and veterinary medicine programmes.

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Graduate Outcomes survey 2022, HESA

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Graduate

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Charlie Wooding

Veterinary Biosciences BSc (Hons)

My time at Surrey cemented my passion for veterinary science and I’m now studying at the Royal Veterinary College in London, on their graduate veterinary medicine programme.