The Bachelor’s degree offers a unique educational pathway, targeting people who aim at taking professional care of animals and protecting their wellbeing. The Program provides knowledge, skills and competences to develop qualified human resources specialised in animal care, husbandry and welfare, able to operate in different international contexts. Multidisciplinary field experiences, including visits to zoological parks, rehabilitation centres, research facilities, are organised to introduce students to the practical activity.

The field of Animal Care allows students with a deep-rooted love for animals of many species to explore various topics and career paths.

The field of Animal Care allows students with a deep-rooted love for animals of many species to explore various topics and career paths.

Animal Wellbeing is Designed for farm owners, managers, and 2ICs, the program focuses on the benefits to be gained through affordable, practical, good animal care practices. On completion, you will understand the market expectations and benefits of good animal care practice. You will learn how to use body condition and locomotion scoring to monitor animal well-being, recognize and avoid heat stress, and understand time budgeting.

The department's comprehensive hands-on program allows you to apply the principles you've learned in the classroom to a variety of species in real life including farm animals, exotic animals, laboratory animals, as well as your own pets. Extensive facilities are available for you to gain experience in areas such as veterinary medicine, animal biotechnology, animal facility management, animal nutrition and animal food manufacturing.

Animal management and welfare is a rapidly growing field of study and work. If you're keen to get stuck right away, this unique program could be the next step you need to take in your career.

You consider animal rights and the ethics around using animals for food, sport, and scientific research. How should society reflect those rights and ethics in our law-making and public policies? We scrutinise the many forms of animal use in different settings, such as farming, transportation and slaughter, laboratories, homes, zoos and various other entertainment locales, and about free-ranging animals in natural environments. As you progress through the programme, you master the skills and knowledge involved in assessing and ensuring the welfare of animals using a range of data and sound scientific processes.

The pre-veterinary program at Becker College has an academically rigorous science-based curriculum designed to meet the requirements for admission to most veterinary schools.

Girton has always taken a large cohort of veterinary students with, on average, eight to nine students embarking on the Veterinary Medicine course at Girton each year.

Do you want to work with injured or orphaned wildlife? Do you want to develop the skills to rehabilitate and release wild animals? Do you dream of one day opening your own rehabilitation center?